New Britain herald., 1926-09-25
Miss Louise Boyd of Cali fornia, Charged by h. furiated Bear, Kills the Beast With Lucky Shot at Range of 40 Yards.

London. Sept. 25 LE) - Exper- fenced polar hunters doff their hats to Miss Louise A. Boyd of San Rafael, California. who has return cd 10 London after a six weeks trip into the arctic.
 To Miss Boyd belongs the dis tinctton of having been the first woman 10 set foot upon dcsolate Franz Josef land. With Miss Boyd were Miss Janet Coleman of San Francisco and Count and Countess Riyadavia, friends of King Alfonso of Spain.
 From the S0th degree northern latitude Miss Boyd returned with the pelts of @ polar bears. six of which she shot in one day.
 Looks Like Real Woman
 There is nothing mannish in the appearance of the slim American girl, clad in modish knee-length dress of black gcorgette, as she sat in the drawing room of a west end hotel telling to the Associated Press a story of arctic exploits which would do credit to any male big game hunter. Miss Boyd char tered ship, the Hobby, to carry her party of four into the ice fields beyond Spitzbergen. The Hobby sailed from Tromsoe July 29.
 Kills infuriatcd Bear
 Miss Boyd told modestly of her l achievement in killing an infuri- i ated bear at a range of 40 yards.
 Tt was q lucky shot in the throat" she said, but had a narrow escape. Bears move at an incredibly fast pace once they are charging over the ice, and the great thing for a person to do is to keep cool"
 The party captured five cubs alive. Three of them are about IS months old and two six months old
 Miss Boyd said her only disap- pointment during the trip was the entire absence of the walrus. which the party had hoped to hunt.
 The Womcn's Dress
 The women of the party wora high boots and brooches. The tenn perature, however did not fall be- low II degrees of frost, Fahren- helt. For days the ship was en- cased in two inch coating of ice The worst part of the trip came after a fruitless attempt to land on Hope island, lonely rock south east of SpitzDergen. The storm -ossed Hobby had perious voy- I lge back to Tromsoe through the , 'rctic night which had set in after ! August 24. ,
 Miss Boyd took 21,O0o feet of 1lm beside zoo photographs of | lrctic scenery.
 Likes Arctic Weather
 'I shall be sailing for sunny | California at the end of October or 2 arly in November" said Miss q Boyd, but I rcycl in the cold. Ia lave got the arctic lure and will I go north again." Is Fogs, ice and storms alternated f ntil August Is, when land was rst sighted. It was Bell Island, f ne of the Franz Josef group. With t the hobby nosed her way a through leads in the ice in Night h lgale Sound by Cape Crowther un- , Il at so degrees 26 minutes the q essel was forced by an Arctic ice |, arrier to turn back S The hobby then skirted Prince land and the party made Ii landing at Cape Flora, where h lrge stone marked the soiourn of ', n earlier Italian geographic survey 1T ypedition |.
 Discusses Scenery o "The islands here" said Miss oyd, with their domeshaped gla- ', fer covered mountains. were In re- |. larkable contrast to Spitzbergen's ., lgged peaks. But even here the rief Arctic summer brings forth . ogetation. In sheltered spots, Y lere was aplenty of white and :, ellow flowers blooming and the II Hands were positively alive with " ulls. There was no sign of any ;, ther life. Nothing remained of the ', nts erected thirty years ago by the . Harmsworth expedition. U Our intention to reach Eastern - pitzbergen by way of the Wyches | ilands was frustrated by moving | ummocky icef1elds. Our best shoot g was between the 18th and 79th ngrecs. There I got eleven out of total of % bears. Count Rivadavia lot giant, weighing more than GOO pounds. Mine only averaged l. 10 pounds" |