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HOMKS AVITHOUT HAXDS. 



Owing to the peculiar nature of the substance in wliich the 

 White Bear (Thalarctos maritimiis) makes its curious burrows, 

 I have placed it after, instead of before, the earth-burrowing 

 rodents. 



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We are told by experienced travellers in northern climes tlint 

 nobody need be frozen to death in the snow. They look upon 

 such a misfortune with a species of contemptuous pity, compas- 

 sionatinc; the victim of cold for his sufferinj:;s, but despisincj 

 him for liis ignorance. The aboriginal Australian cannot com- 

 prehend how a white man can be so foolish as to die of thirst 

 while there are so many water-bearing vegetables around him ; 

 tlie aboriginal American is at a loss to understand liow a 

 European can perish of Lunger wliile in tlie midst of plenty ; and 

 those who have passed much of their lives amid the snow can 



