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danger, it rushes upon Man with a blind fury and determination 

 too often fatal in their results. (Fig. 176.) 



It is not an uncommon thing for White Bears to drift out to 

 sea on floating icebergs, when they become reduced to the most 



frightful distress from hunger. Fatally confined to their icy rr,ft, 

 and utterly devoid of all means of subsistence, they ultimately 

 attack and devour one another. Some of these famished Bears 



