THE BEAR. 



Polar Bears catching Seals. 



A sailor in the Arctic regions nearly lost his life by imprudently attacking a Polar Bear with no weapon 

 but a rusty musket, which could not be induced to fire ; and indeed had he not been separated from the 

 infuriated Bear by a cleft in the ice, he could hardly have escaped its claws. As the seals frequently 

 crawl out of the water upon rocks or fragments of ice, the Polar Bear is forced to swim after them, but lest 

 they should observe him he makes approaches by a succession of dives, and contrives that the last dive 

 brings him directly under the unsuspecting seal, who is immediately grasped and killed. Richardson states 

 that these bears are often drifted from Greenland to Iceland on the fields of ice, and that they find the flocks 

 and herds so very delicious after a long course of seal diet, that the inhabitants are forced to rise in a body 

 and put an end to their depredations. To give this animal, who is constantly running over fields of ice, a 

 firm footing the soles of its feet are thickly covered with long hair. 



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A Grizzly Bear. 



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