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The statement of the speaker concludes that it is probably exist of grizzly bears in eastern Canadian province by the reason of the record of a nineteenth’s century explorer’s account of met a grizzly bear and evidence from Inn’s legends and language. However, in my opinion, many the reason the speaker cited are open to doubt.

First, by the speaker’s primary reason, the account of explorer in nineteenth-century is not persuaded. The truth of the account is undefined. The speaker failed to tell us which document the record taken part in. Information is vague of this record. We have no exact detail information of how the explorer met the bear, what is the image of the bear like, where is the exact location he met the bear, who recorded the matter. Without these detail information, the truth of the record should be questioned.  

Second, even the record is true; the information maybe miss accuracy. On one hand, it is possible that the explorer lost his direction in the thick forest that he missed the location in a hurry. During long trip in the woods, the address he came across to the eastern province he had not realized. On the other hand, the explorer may meet other type of bears such as black bears which is very similar in color. Although the sizes of the two kinds of bears are different, it is very probably for most people to confuse one to each other under the scare.

Third, the speaker concludes grizzly bears existed in eastern country because of the two words in Innu’s legends and langrage. That lacks fundamentals that between this reason and result there is no necessary connection. One nation have two words of tow types of bears is very normal. There are tree explanations to this effect: first, people migrated to western area when they met the grizzly bears; second, the words come from other nation transmitted to Innu’s culture; third, the image of grizzly bears is assumed by people that it is the ideal image which is similar with grizzly bears. These situations are very probably lead to two bear’s name come into the Innu’s legends and language.

In sum, to persuade us to believe that there are grizzly bears in eastern provinces, the speaker must give us more conventional educations of witness of grizzly bears or more detail information of the nineteenth-century explorer’s account. Connection between the reasons and results which indicate the existence of grizzly bear cause different words of bears in Innu’s legends and language.
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