<TITLE>05. Par 40-46</TITLE>L-40 Now, that's the famous bear. There's four in the grizzly family. One is the silver-tip, which is the famous. Next is called, the native name, kadish, which is a black with a round ear; the second. Third is the regular grizzly, which is between black and brown, a huge bear. And the next is the Kodiak, which is only found on Kodiak Island and--and western Alaska; he's great, mammoth, biggest of all bears, but he's a grizzly. But the silver-tip is black, and the white is on--the silver is on the end of the tip of the hair. He's the famous one, very high-strung, ill-tempered bear.
I shot the bear with a heart shot, killed him. But I was questioned, the little rifle I had, about getting it. And I'd told the brethren. How many here has heard me tell about that before it happened? Raise up your hands. Well, of course, most of them. See?

L-42 And so then Mr. Arganbright called me and wanted me to go to Alaska. Well, instead of going to Alaska, I felt led to go back up here to this trip, up here with Bud, because I'd promised him.
When I got up there, I told his wife and all the people around there, these things He said. I said, "But now, which one of you all have a green checkered shirt?" Nobody had one. "Well," I said, "then it must be another trip that I'll take. But somewhere, the Lord's going to give it to me, just exactly." So I said, "I thought it might be this trip."

L-44 Well, we went on, on the trip. And the first day, when we got high in above the timberlines, where there's no timber up in the glaciers with our horses. And the second day, we hunted some, and we found plenty of sheep with three-quarter curls, and so forth, but it just wasn't right.
And you talk about a fellowship, every one of us Pentecostal and had the Holy Ghost. We had some time up there, and see those colors changing, and those mountains, and way up in there where only God lives. And such a great time, we wouldn't go to bed till one o'clock in the morning, just praising God and having a glorious time.

L-46 And on the second day we went out. And about six miles back, over behind the glaciers, we spotted some big rams. And said, "Well, we'd go back, and the next morning at daylight we'd be on our road."
So we started off the next morning before daylight, and got--by nine o'clock we was up on--up where we had seen in the glaciers.
But on the road up, I'd seen my first wild caribou. I'd never seen one. I've seen domestic in the Laplands and so forth, but not in the caribou; which is not... A caribou is a native name; it's a reindeer. And so usually they have paneled horns, like this, one running right in front of their nose, and then a panel comes out in front; and then the horns hook over, with another panel about so wide.
Bud had said to me, "Maybe..."
I said, "No, no. He..." I said, "It wasn't a caribou, 'cause it didn't have that kind of horns." But that morning, going up, why, I had seen the cow and calf. And we went over to one side, and I spotted it, a young bull, running.


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