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manner he had the carnal ufe of her body > and while 

 he kept her in his den, he daily went forth and brought 

 her the beft fruits he could get , prefenting them to 

 her as food, as courtly as he could do it i but al- 

 ways when he went to forrage, he rowlcd a very 

 great ftone to the mouth of his den , that the virgin 

 fhould not make her efcape from him : at length her 

 parents, with long fearch, found their daughter in the 

 Beards den, who delivered her from that beaftial captivi- 

 They are naturally very cruel and mifchievous unto 

 all tame bealls, and are very ftrong in all parts of their 

 body but their head , whereon a fmall blow will kill 

 them. 



They go to mate in the beginning of the winter, 

 fome fooner, fome later, according to their reft and 

 feeding i and their heat lafteth not paffing fifteen 

 days. 



When the (he-Bear perceiveth her felf with whelp, (he 

 withdraws her fclf into fome cave, or hallow rock, and 

 there remains till fhe brings forth her whelps, where 

 without meat they grow very fat, efpecially the males, 

 onely by fucking their fore-feet. When they enter in- 

 to their den, they convey themfelves backward, that fo 

 they may put out their foot-fteps from the light of the 

 hunters. 



The nature of all of them is to avoid cold , and 

 therefore in the winter- time they hide themfelves, 

 chuiing rather to fufFer famine than cold •■> lying for 

 the moll: part three or four months together and ne- 

 ver fee the light, whereby in a manner their guts are 

 clung together : coming forth, they are fo dazled by 

 long darknefs, being in the light again, that they ftag- 

 ger and reel to and fro i and then by a fecret inftindt 

 they remedy the itraightnefs of their guts by eating an 

 herb called Arum, in En^lilh IFuhf-robbin or Cahes- 



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