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er, also, is made from them for harnesses. The Brown 
Bear of Northern Europe yields so many benefits to the 
people of Lapland that they call it “the dog of God.” 
94. The Grizzly Bear of North America, Fig. 39, is 
Fig. 39.—Grizzly Bear. 
the most fierce and powerful of the Bears. Among the 
Indians it is regarded a great feat to kill one of them, 
and he who does this is permitted to wear a necklace 
of its claws as a decoration. Although very clumsy, it 
climbs trees readily, which it does to get at the honey in 
the nests of wild bees. It lives on roots, berries, and 
juicy plants, and, when it can do so, will devour a pig, a 
sheep, or a calf. 
95. The Polar Bear, Fig. 40 (p. 60), is entirely white, 
except the claws and the tip of the nose, which are black. 
It lives chiefly upon seals, which it hunts both in the wa- 
ter and on the ice, With its stout claws, and its long 
hair about its feet, it runs rapidly over the smoothest ice, 
and even climbs up the sides of icebergs. Sometimes 
these bears float off to sea on fields of ice, and in this 
