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ice-wall so high that the hunters dared 

 not attempt to climb it on account of the 

 danger of slipping and killing them- 

 selves. A British explorer of the Arctic 

 regions says that he once climbed to the 

 top of an iceberg, and there found a big 

 white bear sleeping away, in quiet pos- 

 session. The bear, on discovering the 

 party, jumped over the perpendicular 

 side of the ice mountain, fifty-one feet, 

 into the sea, and swam to the nearest 

 land, which was more than twenty miles 

 away. 



The polar bears live on seal and wal- 

 rus, crawling stealthily up to the former 

 on the ice-floes and catching them ; while 

 of the walrus only the young are thus 

 caught, for an old walrus is twice as big 

 as Bruin. Some Arctic explorers, how- 

 ever Captain Hall and Dr. Rae among 



