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er, also^ is made from them for harnesses. The Brown 

 Bear of Northern Europe yields so many benefits to the 

 people of Lapland that they call it " the dog of God." 

 94. The Grizzly Bear of North America, Fig. 39, is 



Fig. 39. Grizzly Bear. 



the most fierce and; .powerful of the Bears. Among the 

 Indians it is regarded a great feat to kill one of them, 

 and he who does this is permitted to wear a necklace 

 of its claws as a decoration. Although very clumsy, it 

 climbs trees readily, which it does to get at the honey in 

 the nests of wild bees. It lives on roots, berries, and 

 juicy plants, and, when it can do so, will devour a pig, a 

 sheep, or a calf. 



95. The Polar Bear, Fig. 40 (p. 60), is entirely white, 

 except the claws and the tip of the nose, which are black. 

 It lives chiefly upon seals, which it hunts both in the wa- 

 ter and on the ice. With its stout claws, and its long 

 hair about its feet, it runs rapidly over the smoothest ice, 

 and even climbs up the sides of icebergs. Sometimes 

 these bears float off to sea on fields of ice, and in this 



