[1] Usually the tannin was extracted by placing the acorn flour in some sort of filter and letting water percolate through it.—Ed.
[2] Albino freaks.—Ed.
[3] The grizzlies of early California were larger than those of the Rocky Mountains, but estimates of their weight were commonly exaggerated. The largest bear of any species of which there is record was one killed by J. C. Tolman, in October, 1889, at the head of English Bay, on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The skin, when moderately stretched on the ground, was 13 ft. 6 in. long by 11 ft. 6 in. wide; length of head, 20 in.; breadth, 12 in.; length of hind foot, 20 in.; breadth, 12 in.; weight of carcass with entrails and blood removed, 1,656 lbs.; estimated live weight, a little over a ton.—Ed.
[4] Arrastres.—Ed.
[5] Under two hundred miles in an air line.—Ed.
[6] An over-estimate: probably about $500,000,000.—Ed.