URSINE SEAL. 
have a hircine smell; are excessively fierce; 
and possess such an attachment to their old 
haunts, that they will sooner perish than quit 
them. If another approaches their station, 
they rouze from their indolence, sqap at the 
intruder, and a battle instantly commences. 
Should they, in the confli61:» as it frequently 
happens, approach the seat of another, he joins 
in the fray; till, at length, the strife becomes 
general, and war spreads along the whole 
shore. All the Males, indeed, are extremely 
irascible ; and similar contests prevail among 
those who live in a more social state, on a va- 
riety of occasions. The chief, and most potent 
cause, is when any attempt is made to seduce 
one of their mistresses, or a young Female of 
the family: this insult never fails to produce 
a combat, and the conqueror carries off the 
whole seraglio, who always readily desert the 
unhappy vanquished. Each animal is said to 
have a particular stone, which serves for it's 
bed, and which it cannot be induced to relin- 
quish ; when, therefore, this favourite scat is 
invaded by another, a fierce contest ensues. 
A third source of warfare arises from inter- 
fering in the quarrels of each other. The 
wounds 
