5 C 2 THE BROWN BEAR. 



tracted, it was probably fifty or sixty pounds lighter than it would 

 have been during the autumnal months. Professor Nillson 

 speaks of one that, when slung on a pole, ten men could with 

 difficulty carry a short distance, and that weighed, he thinks, 

 not less than seven hundred and fifty pounds English. It was 

 killed during the autumn; and it had so enormous a stomach, 

 as almost to resemble a cow in calf. After receiving several 

 balls, he dashed at the cordon of people who surrounded him, 

 and severely wounded seven of them in succession one, in 

 thirty-seven different places, and so seriously in the head that 

 his brains were visible. One of Mr. Falk's under-keepers assured 

 Mr. Lloyd, that he had killed one even much larger, the fat of 

 which alone weighed one hundred pounds j and its wrists were 

 so immense, that with both of his own two huge hands, he was 

 unable to span either of them by upwards of an inch. " It was," 

 says Mr. Lloyd, " a Daniel Lambert among its species." The 

 powers of such animals must indeed be tremendous ; for, as the 

 Swedes say, " together with the wit of one man, the bear has 

 the strength of ten." 



A bear is a match for a dozen wolves, and Mr. Lloyd thinks 

 he would be a match for at least a score of them if his hind- 

 quarters were protected, as in a den. Daniel Jansson, one of 

 his guides, informed him, that once during the chase, when he 

 and his companions were far behind both the bear and a dog 

 that was pursuing it, a drove of five wolves as they knew by 

 their tracks in the snow attacked and devoured the dog. They 

 had subsequently attacked the bear, but after a severe conflict, as 

 was apparent from the state of the snow, and the quantity of 

 hair both from the bear and the wolves that was lying about the 

 spot, the bear came off victorious, but was killed by the hun- 

 ters, its skin however being rendered useless from the bites of 

 the wolves. Jan Finne, a Swede, mentioned two instances of 

 bears having been killed by wolves in the one case, seven wolves, 

 and in the other, eleven having been engaged in the combat. 



The brown bear feeds on animals arid vegetables. He eats 

 roots, the leaves and small branches of the aspen, mountain- ash, 



