ThE COMMON BEAR. 355 



All their other dances are similar to the Bear- 

 dance, in many particulars ; and those attitudes are 

 always thought to approach neatest to perfection, 

 which most resemble the motions of the Bear *. 



If the uses of the Bear be so various to the Kamts- 

 chadales, not less general is the wear of his fine and 

 warm fur to persons of the higher classes in Russia. 

 A light black Bear-skin is one of the most comforta- 

 ble and costly articles in the winter wardrobe of a 

 man of fashion, at Petersburg or Moscow. 



Dr. Townson has remarked, in the Hungarian 

 Bear, pretty nearly the same characteristics as I have 

 just noticed in that of Kamtschatka. He says, that 

 however savage these animals may be accounted, 

 they seem to be considerably less so than Man : for 

 the Hungarian cliildren go into the woods, and col- 

 lect the cranberries, Sec. which is a depredation on 

 the property of the Bears (who feed on them), with- 

 out a single attack from those animals ; nor has any 

 person in that country been known to be hurt by 

 them, without having first commenced the assault. 



He was informed, by the peasantry of Hungary^ 

 (what, he says, he had often before heard,) that 

 when the Bears leave the woods, and come into the 

 corn-fields at night to feed, they draw the standing 

 corn through their fore paws, then rub the detaclied 

 ears between them, blow away the chaft^, and eat 

 the grain 'j~. — Mr. Pennant tells us, th.at Bears are 

 very fond of peas; of which they will tear up great 

 Cjuantities, and, beating them out of the shells on 



* Lr.^spp^ i. !01. Cooke's last Voyage, iv. 100. t Townson, 391. 



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