Bear hunting is an amusement of the country, very pleasant and exciting until the bear turns and becomes the hunter.

Then there is no fun in it, if he succeeds in his pursuit.

A gentleman in Kamchatka gave me a bearskin more than six feet long, and declared that it was not unusually large.

I am very glad there was no live bear in it when it came into my possession.
There is a story of a man in California who followed the track of a grizzly bear a day and a half.

He abandoned it because, as he explained, "it was getting a little too fresh." One day, about two years before my visit, a cow suddenly entered Petropavlovsk with a live bear on her back.