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But the bear also has a club for defence. Each hunter must wear a hat, and once the bear knocks a hunter's hat off, that one is dead and out of this hunt. He must drop where his hat falls.
Tackling of any kind is forbidden.
The bear wins by killing or putting to flight all the hunters. In this case he keeps the necklace.
The savageness of these big bears is indescribable. Many lives are lost in each hunt, and it has several times happened that the whole party of hunters has been exterminated by some monster of unusual ferocity.
This game has also been developed into a play.
SPEARING THE GREAT STURGEON
This water game is exceedingly popular and is especially good for public exhibition, being spectacular and full of amusement and excitement.
The outfit needed is: —
(i) A sturgeon roughly formed of soft wood; it should be about four feet long and nearly a foot thick at the head. It may be made realistic, or a small log pointed at both ends will serve.
(2) Two spears with six-inch steel heads and wooden handles (about four feet long). The points should be sharp, but not the barbs. Sometimes the barbs are omitted altogether. Each head should have an eye to which is attached twenty feet of one-quarter inch rope. On each rope, six feet from the spearhead, is a fathom-mark made by tying on a rag or cord.
(3) Two boats with crews. Each crew consists of a spearman, ..text pokračuje
