Show himalayan malayan Hl bears ch chamberg Cham mb beri Jor journal nal in localities where oak forests abound says general macintyre perhaps the pleasant est it if not the beat best time for shooting these bears Is in the month of december when they are fed fact on acorns wh which ic agethen are then ripe T they ley generally commence feeding about b out sunset when they climb up tip the oale oa trees and gorge with acorns scorns all night often not betak ing hig thew themselves selves to their lairs which are generally either caves or thickets crets near their fee feeding dino grounds until borne some time after sunrise their hereabout are easily discovered wom from r t the he broken branches showing the dark foliage of the tile trees the back of the leaf of the himalayan oak being white at the commencement of the acorn season their attention is in so much engaged with their feast that usually they are easily approached but on suddenly finding themselves treed their astonishment is ill lull 11 crous to behold A bear he be adds adde when up a tree even it if only aligi slightly 1 aly wounded never attempts to clamber clam ber down it invariably flops straight on to ohp ground I 1 from rom any bight w hat I 1 once saw a bear I 1 had shot at roll over and over like a ball down an arl almost al most perpendicular declivity tor for several hundred feet and seemingly without much inconvenience from its tumble an m it was nowhere to be found at the tile bottom an odd peculiarity pecullar ity of bears is that when two or more of 0 them are found ogather together and one of them happens liap pens to get wounded the wounded one will manifest ita its resentment by savagely attacking one of ita its companions pan ions A rood good story in thia this connection is told of another sportsman ho ito had stalked a large she bear feeding in some open ground with a half grown cub at ita its eide tide from the bearb bears lon be he could not get a shot ata at a vital place akiso aniso aal so instead of waiting as he ought to have done lone he lie fired and hit the animal behind he ito might just as well have hit her tier with a ladys riding whip the animal on being struck turned round to see what was the matter and precely ed nothing but her own cub feeding quietly by her side came to the conclusion apparently that the cub bad had bitten her she at on one rushed at the cub to punish it for or ito ita presumption and the two rolled ivr andover and di appeared appear ail in the jungle the th a sportsman waa was loo touch amund amusin d at the incident to ge beet an aber shot another remarkable por p if f bara noted rioted by Getie ril jil Alac Macli Intyre tyre ia is that when a bear attacks A man it almost invariably goes for lia his faw face whereas A tiger or len igop P rd seizes a limb first I 1 bierce it is IB hat that in the himalayas native villagers fire not to be ean with their facea fearfully fear folly by bv beara bears laws thia title they are liable to when protecting protect ine their crops irom from destruction by the bears |