HOW GRIZZLY DAN CLEARED THE INDIANS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 486, 15 March 1881, Page 2

HOW GRIZZLY DAN CLEARED THE INDIANS.

The champion liar of the western hemisphere is undoubtedly " Grizzly Dan," the bear-killer of the Yosemite, who tells the following as one of his adventures :—He was once set upon by a whole tribe of howling red devils, and was obliged to run for his life. He headed for the brink of a cliff about some seven hundred feet high, dodging ihe bullets fired at him as he ran, being able,through long practice, to tell the course of a ball by the sound as it approached from the rear. Grizzly Dan unhesitatingly leaped over the cliff, to the amazement of the Indians, who gathered in a row to watch his fall. Dan turned in the air as he was falling, raised his Winchester rifle to his shoulder, and pulled the trigger. An Indian toppled over with a ball through his left eye ; and Dan kept pulling lever and trigger until seventeen of the red devils had balls through their left eyes, and were falling over the cliff alter him. The eighteenth shot only carried away an Indian's nose, as the air was so full of falling Ind ans between Dan and the top of the cMff that his aim was a little confused. He stuck feet foremost in the river below, and swamashor*3 uninjured. The Indian remaining on the top of the cliff was the sole survivor of the tribe, and was ever afterwards known f.s « Man-with- a-hole-in-his-nose."