HOW GRIZZLY DAN CLEARED THE INDIANS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 58, 22 March 1881, Page 3

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 story of one of his milder adventures: —Ho was onco set upon by a whole tribe of howling red devils, and was obliged to run for his life. He headed for tbe brink of a cliff about seven hundred feet high dodging the bullets fired at him as he ran, bein, abte, through long practice, to tell the course oi a ball by the souud as it approached from the rear. Dan unhesitatingly leaped over the cliff, to the amazement ot the Indians, who 'gathered in a row to watoh his fall. Dan turned in the; air as be

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 the lever and trigger until seventeen of the red devila had balls through their left eyes, and were falling over the cliff after him The eighteenth shot only carried away an Indian's nose, as the ai* was so full of falling Indians between Dan and the top of the clifi that his aim was a little confused. Ho struck feet foremost in the river below, and swam ashore uninjured The Indian remaining on the top of the cliff was the sole survivor of the tribe, and was ever afterwards known as " Man-with-a-hole-in-his-noae."