18 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
Of the ancient British methods of hunting the 
Bear, we are but imperfectly informed. We learn, 
however, from rude descriptions and ruder figurings, 
that he was watched to his couch, or was traced to 
his winter retirement, when arrows, pikes, clubs, 
javelins, and long knives, were used against him ; he 
was also occasionally betrayed into a pitfall. In 
BEAR HUNT. FROM AN OLD PRINT IN POSSESSION OF THE AUTHOR. 
later times the Bear was trailed with boar-hounds, 
and despatched by the spear or knife of the hunter, 
made in his travels through Wales” (“ Phil. Trans.,” vol. xxvii. p. 462), 
the writer observes :— 
“Sir William Williams hath several Welsh MSS. (tho’ I think 
no dictionary) that would be of use tome; but his son tells me he’s 
resolv’d never to lend any. They are chiefly modern copies out of 
Hengurt Study in Meitrionydhshire, which I am promis’d free access 
to; and have this time taken a Catalogue of all the ancient MSS. it 
contains. There are the works of TYaliefyn, Anewryn qwawdydh, 
Myrdhyn ab Morvryn and Kygodio Elaeth, who lived in the fifth and 
