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HUNTER' S EN COUNTEIR WITH DYING ANIMAL. THEI0WN DOWN BANK. Vancouver, November 18. Fred Beaulieu, the noted bear hunter of Bellacoola, on the western British Columhia coast, had a pe'rsonal encounter with a grizzly bear at such close quarters that he narrowly escaped death. Near Kildala River he saw a bear cub and began looking around for its mother. As he reached for his rifle he felt a stinging blow on the leg. An old grizzly had grabbed his thigh. Quickly Beaulieu swung his gun , around and fired into her hody. The shock forced the bear to let go, but she swung her paw so hard that the hunter was sent spinning 20 feet away. When he picked himself up he found one arm broken and one foot mangled, with the boot full of blood. I But the bear threw the hunter so far down a bank that she failed to follow him and, in terrible pain, Beaulieu managed to stagger away. | It took -him three days to reacn the ranch-house 20 miles away. j Wfhile Beaulieu was recovering, friends went out and found the carcase of the bear near where it had been shot.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 726, 29 December 1933, Page 3
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