WHITE BEAR. 
These animals feed on fish, seals, the car- 
cases of whales, and even on human bodies; 
which last they often greedily dig out of their 
rraves, They are said to be particularlv fond 
of human blood ; and are sometimes so daring 
as to attack companies of armed rhen. It is, 
indeed, very common for a drove of White 
Bears to rush, from the surrounding ice, to- 
wards our Greeniandmen ; arid, climbing up 
the sides, board the vessel, in search of that 
blubber, the scent of which so powerfully at- 
tra6i:s them. On these occasions, however, 
the sailors, who generally perceive them com- 
ing, instantly run aloft ; and, with their mus- 
kets, soon dispatch tliese unwelcome visitants. 
Even at land, where they often devour 
birds and their eggs, allured by the smell 
of tlie seal's flesh, they not unfrequentlv 
break into, and plunder, the houses of ti.e 
Greenlanders. 
Frequent, and terrible battles, ensue be- 
tween the White Bear, and the morse or the 
whale : in these confli^Tts, the Vvift teeth of the 
morse usually give it a decisive surcriority ; 
and 
