Bear Hunting Story Is Related)
(Editor’s note: Hobart Wise
man, school teacher and hunter,
told last week of the death of
Kewan. In this week’s story
Wiseman describes his first bear
hunt.)
boon the second year rolled
around and I was entitled by my
year s residence to get a bear,
Afognak island is a reserve, so
I knew I would have to hunt on
Kodiak island, about 15 miles a
way. I hired a power boat and
a friend and I made the trip on
it to Raspberry island. The boat
left and was to call for us later.
After a careful watch on the
beach and scouting up and down
the creek for about five miles
each day we still did not face
any of the big ones. One after
noon while we were awav on a
hike up the valley we returned
to find tracks of three bears that
had visited our camp while we
were gone. How we wished we
had stayed near camp that day!
On the fourth morning out our
boat was back for us and we
had to break camp and leave.
Soon we were aboard and watch
ing the land recede behind us—
land of the bear, yes, but of a
bear hard to locate in the tall
grass, seven feet high, with vhich
I was becoming incresingly
familiar.
My next trip had to wait until
school was out. As soon as vaca
tion came I started on a trip with
Robert von Scheele and Cecil
Brown on the Rough Rider, to
Terror Bay. The weather was
fine and we made the run to the
bay in about six hours. The next
morning it was blowing and rain
ing, but nothing would keep me
aboard. Robert was sick with the
flu, so Cecil rowed me and his dog
ashore. I wasn’t anxious about
having the dog along, as I had
heard of a Kodiak chasing a dog
into a cabin and tearing it into
bits and wrecking the cabin.
I was watching a couple' of
eagles flying about when I glanc
ed around and saw a big bear
walking aw*ay from me on the
beach, about 400 yards away. At
about the same time he must
have scented me, or at least he
turned around and began walk
ing in my direction just as
though he had forgotten some
thing. I moved out more into the
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