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have been drifted to the coasts of Iceland and even Norway. 

 They are then indeed terrible, and make an indiscriminate rush 

 on anything before them, be it Man or brute. Circumstances of 

 this kind have certainly contributed to form the reputation they 

 have acquired of untameable ferocity. 



Living in the midst of perpetual ice, the White Bear naturally 

 dreads heat. Pallas, who observed one that was kept captive at 

 Kranojack, in Siberia, says that it could never remain long in its 

 house. Although the climate there is very inclement, it took a 

 constant delight in rolling in the snow. The "White Bears in 



177.— Malay Bear \ Ursus Mami/aims, Kallies). 



the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, suifer so much from the heat of 

 summer, that it is impossible to keep them alive for any length- 

 ened period. Cuvier, however, says that one lived there for 

 fifteen years, owing to the care that was taken, both in winter 

 and summer, to refresh it by throwing over its body sixty to 

 eighty pails of water daily. 



The White Bear never becomes familiar with Man. When in 



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