The account says:-- "Toward evening the men in the hindmost canoes discovered a large brown (grizzly) bear lying in the open grounds, about three hundred paces from the river.

Six of them, all good hunters, immediately went to attack him, and concealing themselves by a small eminence came unperceived within forty paces of him.

Four of the hunters now fired, and each lodged a ball in his body, two of them directly through the lungs.

The furious animal sprang up and ran open-mouthed upon them.
"As he came near, the two hunters who had reserved their fire gave him two wounds, one of which, breaking his shoulder, retarded his motion for a moment; but before they could reload he was so near that they were obliged to run to the river, and before they had reached it he had almost overtaken them.

Two jumped into the canoe; the other four separated, and, concealing themselves in the willows, fired as fast as they could reload.