The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-10

| fish and shark feeding near a mud flat
 and, taking our two rifles and skiff, drifted in Among them; the sport be- gan, and was sport really and truly,
 until, encouraged by our repeated abil- I ity to perdorate the reddish, a large
 shark near by tempted us, and letting the big fellow come within dozen feet
 of the boat, I've let fly bullet at the top of his broad head and another in his back mean the big fin. The result was perhapsl as great surprise to
 ourselves as to the shark as if blast of dynamite had exploded under him i the big fellow leaped into the air, carry ing barrels of water, and the descent promised to swamp cur frail craft.
 The shark, Apparently stunned, and furious, turned upon his back, made a circuit of our boat, then-still on his
 back darted straight at us, hitting us amidships and half filling the boat, This was evidently as much surprise to the shark again as to ourselves, for it at once lighted itself and made frenzied dash for deeper water; reach ing it his great tail fairly whipped the water into boiling mass. Things were getting more serious this time than en- joyable and we would have gladly
 backed off if we had had a fair wind, but his royal nibs was not enough.
 Another rapid series of evolutions kept our craft bobbing around at rate that drew on all our time and agility to keep in it, until at late, like a cata- putt, he shot high up on the mud flat and stranded, very much to our relief
 We had not lost any more sharks our appetite for diversion was thor oughly satisfied, and thinking we had greater longing for a dish of fish chowder we left our victim founder ing spasmodically in the mud and re- turned to the yacht fully determined not to start anything with shark again.
 In due time after a fine trip we put in to Flamingo Flats and dropped an- chor in front of the home of Eugene Roberts one of about a dozen families who constitute the population of the Cape. The next day after our arrival Bob Doughil neighbor, came excited ly with the information that three bears were tearing up ant hills on the edge of the prairie, a short distance down the road. It did not take long to get our party in motion, MT. Roberts with his dog in advance. The bears were there sure enough, and very soon a shower of balls was ploughing through their black shaggy skins. A bear is not easily killed, and as the grass was as high as the bears, a running fight be- gan which carried the party across the half mile of prairie and into the dense hammock.
 One bear was killed on the prairie and the second, supposed to be disabled, was passed, and pursuit was given to the largest one, which seemed very hard to down. Hard pressed by the dog and sorely wounded, 1t treed where, with single shot it was brought down, breaking off a very large limb as it fell This bear would weigh at least 300 pounds. Mir, Roberts now returned for the mule and wagon and began gathering up the game, but the bear supposed to have been disabled had re- covered sufficiently to escape into the hammock
 Having now plenty of meat our party did not hunt for deer which are very numerous there, and can be gotten in sufficient quantities to satisfy any req sonable sportsman. We shot only birds after t'his-duck and curlew are there, ! myrlads of them. One of the party shot ffty-seven ducks in one day, and could i have shot five times as many had he | wanted to.
 Among other hunters whom I met at | the Cape was one of a shooI now al- | most extinct. since frontier conditions which created them have faded into | civilization. Uncle Steve Robinson is