CHAPTER V. 
BEARS. 
THEtR SIZE— SAVAGE DISPOSITION— MODE OF GEITING THEIR FAVOtJRITE FOOD 
—THE BEAR IN HIS SUMMER HOUSE— MV FIRST BEAR— WHO THE DEUCE 
ARE VOU ?— DANGER OF APPROACHING A VVOUNDEH ntlAR— THREE BEARS 
MARKED DOWN— WE TAKE OVV OVli nOO TS — I MISS STOPPING HIM— HK IS 
UPON ME AT ONCE— A SHARP PINCH— A FUNNY ADVENTURE WITH AN OLD 
SHE BBAR— I DIDN'T DO IT, MA— THE OLD DOG BEAR AND HIS WIFE— HABITS 
OF WOUNDED BEARS. 
iiK Iiuliaii black bear [Ursus iabiatus) the Rich 
(pronounced Reech) of Southern India is, as 
Hawkey e says, " a rum customer and dangerous* 
but amusing and interesting from its queer ways and 
eccentric habits." He is by some called the sloth bear, 
but as the above author remarks " the heart of many a 
sportsman when pursued by a wounded bear, would have 
rejoiced had his movements partaken of the Genus Sloth/' 
The hair is very black, long and shaggy, the muzzle and tip 
of the feet of a dull yellowish white with a white V shape mark 
on the breast. The length of the old males, is, from five to 
six feet and height about three feet. Hawkeye states that 
the bears of the Northern Division about Berhampore appear 
to be of a more savage disposition than the animals down 
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