The grizzly bear can climb a tree, far more easily than can a man.

He was too far distant from the camp to hope for aid from that quarter.

Again it seemed that a dreadful death was inevitable.
The bears hesitated for a moment, growling and showing their claws and their white teeth.

Quick as thought Carson cut and trimmed from the tree a stout cudgel, which would neither break nor bend.

Soon, one of the bears commenced climbing the tree.