To their dismay, they now found that they had encamped in one of the favorite resorts of this dreaded animal.

The idea marred all the comfort of the encampment.

As night closed, the surrounding thickets were peopled with terrors; insomuch that, according to Mr.Hunt, they could not help starting at every little breeze that stirred the bushes.
The grizzly bear is the only really formidable quadruped of our continent.

He is the favorite theme of the hunters of the far West, who describe him as equal in size to a common cow and of prodigious strength.

He makes battle if assailed, and often, if pressed by hunger, is the assailant.