The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, July 28, 1921, Image 2
! TAUGHT BY GRIZZLY.
V eil Authenticated Slot)- of Remarkable
Experience in the Wilds of
British Columbia.
Ulerary Digest.
A low and sudden rumble like far-,
avsay thunder stopped tli0 blood in
the hunter's veins. He had not ex-'
pected liis bear was within two or,
three miles of him. It was in a wild ,
and unlimited part of the British Co-1,
lutnbia mountains and he had gone
out alone on this particular morning, ]
leaving his man to follow with horses
and the Airdale pack. A few days ]
earlier the hunter haj come upon the
trail of an enormous bear. In a patch i
of mud the animal's feet had left!,
tracks that were fifteen inches from j I
tip to tip and so wide and deep were:'
the imprints that he knew he had '
come upon a king of bears and forth- J
with gave him the name Thor. From 1
that moment he was possessed with [
a great desire to kill the monster. In *
his book "'God's Country" (Cosmo- *
'' . pclitan Book) Corporation New 5
York,) James Oliver Curwood tells ?
lio-w his experience with Thor was the |
climax of his kunting days that turn- t
ed him against thc wanton killing t
of beasts. As he heard the rumble of 1
tile bear, he climbed a 1 Ittl0 1'i^o and 1
there he writes: <
Ahead of lhe, on the edge of ti little 1
wallow and mud stood Thor. He had
snielled me and I believe, it was the 1
first time he had ever snielled the J
scent of man. Waiting for this new
mystery in the air, lie had reared
-himself pp until the whole nine feet
of him rested on his haunches and he t
sat like a. trained dog, with his great ,
fore feet, heavy with mud, drooping j
in front of his clie3t. He was a nion- j
jster in si7.e and his new June coatn
shone a golden brown in the sun. 1
His forearms were almost a* large
as a man's body and the three largest 1
of his five knifelike claws were five <
and a half inches long. He was fat
and sleek and powerful. His upper !
fangs, sharp as stilleto-points, werp '
as long as a man's thumb and be- 1
tween his great jaws he could have
crushed the neclc of a caribou. 1 did
not take in all these details in the '
first startling moments; one by one,'
they camc to me later. But I hadj.
never looked upon anything in life ,
qtiite so magnificent. Yet did I have
no thought cf sparing that splendid
life. My rifle was at my saddle horn' j
In its buYk dun jacket. I fumbled it in s
getting into action and in those pre- s
cious moments Thor lowered himself ?and
ambled away. I fired twice and 1
you'd have staked my life that I had r
missed both times. Not until later did s
I discover that one of my bullets had ?
opened a furrow two inches deep and '
a foot long in the flesh of Thor's e
shoulder. Yet I did not see him flinch. 11
He did not turn back, but went his ^
way. I
Shame burns within me as I write:'1,
of the days that followed; and yet,j
with that shame, there is a deep and; ^
abiding joy, for they were also the;,
days of my regeneration. Day and;,.,
night, mv one thought was to <lo- j
stroy the big grizzly. "\Y(> never left L
his trail. The dogs followed him likely
demons. Five times in the first woek j
we came within long shooting range.' p
and twice wc hit him. But still he did >t
not wait for u.s or attack us. He,a
wanted to be left alone. In that week v
he Killed lour oi the dogs and the i!
others we tied ?P to save them. We h
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tiailed him with horses and afoot and
never did the spoor of other same
lure me aside. The desire to kill him
became a passion in me. He outgeneraled
me. lie beat all our games of
trickery. But 1 knew that we were
bound to win?that he was slowly
weakening because of exhaustion and
th0 sickness of his wounds. We loos-i
ed the dogs again and another was
killed. |
And then at last came a day when1
Thor, master of the mountain, show-1
ed a magnanimity that madc the'
hunter feel contemptible, for all his
human shape and soul. He was climbing
the mountain when lie had a mishap
and the account runs:
I Came to u sheer wall or rock that
rose hundreds of feet abovc nio.
Along this ran a narrow ledge and I
followed it. The passage became
uaggv and difficult and in climbing
~>vcr a broken mass of rock I slipped
ind fell. 1 had brought a light mountain
gun with nie and in trying to recover
myself I swung it about with
such force that the stock struck a
sharp edge of rock and broke clean
jff. But I had saved myself from possible
death and was in a frame rath?r
than to curse my luck. Fifty feet,
arther on I came to a "pocket" in
he cliff, where the ledge widened unil
at this particular place, it was like
i flat table twenty feet square. Here]
uvwji, wnn my DacK to the pre-!
lpitous wall arid began to examine
ny broken ri.'li. I,
I laid it beside me, useless. Straight )
ip at my back rose the sheer face of i
he mountain; in front of nie, had I
caped from the ledge, my body would
lave hurtled through empty air for a
liousand feet.
And then, suddenly, there came a
icund to my oars that seemed to stop
he beating of my heart. I had not
teard it until it was very near?ap>roaching
along tlie narrow ledeg. It
vas the click?click?click of claws
attling on rock.
I did not move. I hardly breathed.
\nd out front the ledge I had follow?.l
came a monster bear!
With thn swiftness of lightning I
eccgnized him. It was Thor. And, in
he same instant, tlie great beast saw
v.e. ,
In thirty seconds I lived a lifetime,!
md in those thirty seconds what i
tassed through my mind was a thou-;
and tunes swifter than spoken words.
\ great fear rooted me and yet in;
hat fear I saw everything to the min-|
llest detail. Tlior's massive head and
houlders were fronting me. I saw
he long naked scar where my bullet
iad plowed through his shoulder; I
aw another wound in his foreleg,
till ragged and painful, where anotlit
of my soft-nosed bullets had torn
ike an explosion of dvnamite Th?
:iant grizzly wag no longer fat and
leek as I had first seen him ten days
go. All that time he had been fight- 1
ng for his life; he was thinner; his
yes were red; his coat was dull and 1
ir.kempt from lack of foo<i and 1
trength. But at that distance, less '
li-an ten feet from me, he seemed still 1
mighty brother of the mountains
liemselves. As I sat stupidly, stunned .
o the immobility of a rock in my
our of doom, I felt the overwlielnitg
conviction of what had happened. ,
hor had followed me along the ,
dge and in this hour of vengeance
nd triumph, it was I and not the |
:cat beast, who was about to die. ,
It seemed to me that an eternity:,
assed in these moments. And Tlior,
liglity in lii.s strength, looked at mo I
lid did not move. And this thing lie!
looking at ?shrinking against j (
ic rock was the creating, that had ,
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;t**nt had hurt him and it was so near
.that he could reach out with his Paw
u?d crush it! And how weak and
white ?nd helpless it looked now!
What a pitiful insignificant thing "it
was! Where was its strange thunder?
Where was its burning lightning?
Why did it make no sound?
Slowly Thor's giant head began j
swinging from side to side; then he
advanced?just one step?and in
slew, graceful movement reared himself
to his full, magniflcant height.]
For me, it was the beginning of thei
end. And in that moment, doomed as
I was, I found no pity for myself. |
Here, at last, was justice! I was about'
to die. I. who had destroyed so much
of life, found how helpless I was
when I faced life with .my naked
hands. And it was justice! I had robbed
the earth of more life than would]
fill the bodies of a thousand men and!
now my own life was to follow that ]
which I had destroyed. Suddenly;
fear left me. I wanted to cry out to!
that splendid creature that I was sor-j
ry and could my dry lips have framed
the words, it would not have been 1
cowardice?but truth.
For Thor knew me. That I know, i
H-. knew me as the deadliest of all
hi.-, enemies on the face of the earth.!
Yet until I die will I believe that, in
my helplessness, he no longer hated j
me or wanted my life. For slowly he
came down upon all fours again and i
limping as lie went he continued
along the ledge?and left me to live!
I am not, in these days, sacreligious
enough to think that the Supreme
Power picked my poor insignificant
self from among a billion and a half
other humans especially to preach a'
sermon to that glorious Sunday on j
the mountainside. Possibly it was all ;
mere chance. It may be that another!
(\'A v Thnr wnnLl Imvo Ir.llrwl 1
helplessness. It may all have been a
lucky accident for nie- Personally, I j
do not believe it, for I have found j
that the soul of the average beast is
cleaner of hate and of malice thanj
that of the average man. But wheth-j
er one believes with me or not does
not matter, so far as tlie point I want j
to m-ake is concerned?that from this;
hour began the great change in me, j
which has finally admitted me intoi
the peace and joy of universal broth-!
pi hood with Life.
I returned down the mountain,
carrying my broken gun wi^h me. \
And everywhere I saw that things
were different. The fat whistlers, bit?j
as woodchucks. were no longer so
many targets, watching mc cautiously
Irom the rock-tops; the gophers, sun- '
ning themselves on their mounds,
meant more >to me now than a few i
hours ago. I looked off to a distant
sltde on another mountain and made
out the half dozen sheep I had stud-'
ied through my glasses earlier in the!
day. But my desire to kill was gone.
I did not realize the fulness of the!
change that was upon me then. In a
dull sort of way I accepted it as an ef-;
feet of shock perhaps as a passing'
moment of repentance and gratitude
because of my escape. I did not tell
myself that I would never kill sheep
igain except when mutton was necessary
to my camp fire. I did not promise
the whistlers long lives. And yet
lhe change was on me and growing
stronger in my blood with every
breath I drew. The valley was different.
Its ?iir was sweeter. Its low
song of life and running waters and |
re'vety winds whispering between the I
mountains was new inspiration to me.
The grass was softer under my feet;
the flowers were more beautiful; the
*w4-ih itself held a new thrill for me.
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