TIIK POLAR BBAi: 



in queflUM. It la Mid, howerer, that the lifer ought to I*- axoMM asanarti- ! of diet, an it 

 is apt to cause painful nml even dangerous symptoms to those who hare partaken of 



the li IT of the Ainerim I'.l.i. k I 1 .. .11 i> -,, : .| .. ! .1 |~^ uli ,i I i\ . \ Mhendl ------ I -11 -k. A- i - 



k:iU-l. fashion, with alternate slices of fat 



The Polar Hear i- mi>hatically a marine animal, though not no in the sense of a whale, <ir 

 hk- form-. The aspect of tli.- White Bear i* umm-t..k.iH. . 



The Spectacled Bear (Urttu oritattu) is the onljspedes found in South Am-ricn. . 

 QfMOTWthi Cordillera! I i- ! l.i. ;...* rh th-- . \. J.-...M . f fcpQ leinicimi ir yellow markii 

 al>ore the eyes, which -ii^-.-t the trivial name. 



IT will he (>!>. rvi-1. after the ]>erual of the foregoing pagra, that the Bears are found in 

 nn iost every part <>f th- u..iM. \\ith i.. notable exceptions, vii., Africa and Australia. With 

 reganl t<> it'- latt.-r of th-*- roiiii- may !* rememlHre<l that the entire creation. li. th-r 



or vegetable, is of so strange a natun- that it cannot ! -nl.j. .!.! to the rules whii-h 

 the rest of the world. There ia, it is true, a tree-diml'ing rnture in Aiwtralia, of a 

 somewhat clumsy and ursine aspect, which is i-.puhrly rail.-.! tin- Austntlian Bear, but which 

 is in reality no Bear at all, hut a nifinlM-r of the curious family of the Macni]ii<hr. which .,,n 

 tains the kangaroos, bandicoots, and O]M>VMIIIIS, ami will le shortly <li"MTilHil in its proper 

 place under the title of the Kaola. With regard to th- African continent, the existence or 

 1 1 ii -existence of Bean is by no means decided. 



Many of the ancient hi-iori.-ms make constant m.-ntion of African Bear*. Juvenal, for 

 in- 1 . i !:>. -j-.ik- of N iiii.i'ii.iii }: .^-. \n_il and Martial ol [Jliyan Hears, irldkU tofMOtdad 

 in the annals of the Roman empire, that in the y.-ar . 0. '!. a hundif<l Numidian Bears were 

 ,-xliil>it-l in the circus, earh Bear le<l t.y a negro-hunter. None, however, of the hiter African 

 tr.i\ellere have clearly seen Bears in that country, and it is certain that from the days of Pliny 

 up to the present time no true Bean have been found in Africa. Still, it is very pomible that 

 these animals may be yet discovered in that vast continent ; for there deems to be no reason 

 why Bean should be unable to exist in some parta of HO large a country, although they might 

 not* be able to find subsistence in those portions which have already been investigated. 



