204 TRUE BEAR STORIES.

the long campaign in the wilderness, that
tracks over eleven inches in length were
made by cinnamon bears, and not by gen-
uine grizzlies, although some hunters de-
clare that the cinnamon is only a variety
of grizzly, and that the color is not
the mark of a different species. However
that may be, the difference between the
two varieties is very distinct, and as the
object of the expedition was the capture
of an indubitable California grizzly, no
special effort was made to trap any of the
big cinnamons.

The smaller bears soon gave up the con-
test for the beef and left the field to Pete
and the grizzly, who quarreled and fought
around it for several nights. At last the
grizzly gave Pete a thorough licking and
established his own right to the title of
monarch of the mountain. The decisive
battle occurred one moonlight night and
was witnessed from a safe perch in a fork
of a tree near the trap.

It was nearly 9 o’clock when the snap-