34 LARGE-LIPPED BEAR. 
| long under water. At sea, the food of the polar bear is fish, seals [■ 
j and carcasses of whales ; on land, it preys upon deer and other | 
) animals, and will eat various hinds of berries. In winter, it beds ( 
j itself deeply under the snow, or eminences of ice, and awaits, in j 
| a torpid state, the return of the sun. It suffers greatly when ex- [ 
posed to intense heat. Of the ferocity of the polar bear there are j 
many thrilling instances related. A few years since a party of | 
j sailors, in a boat, fired at and wounded one, when it immediately ( 
j swam after the boat, and, overtaking it, endeavored to climb into | 
| it, and while one of his feet was on the gunwale it was cut off 
with a hatchet ; but, notwithstanding the severe wounds, he still, 
pursued the sailors to the ship. Numerous additional wounds ( 
j did not check its fury or prevent its ascending to the deck of the ( 
j ship, where it was finally killed. 
THE LARGE -LIPPED BEAR. 
he body of this animal is covered with a long, rough and f 
shaggy coat of hair, which, when lying down, gives it the 
appearance of a rude and shapeless mass ; on the top of its j 
j back the hair, which is twelve inches long, rises up like a hunch, ( 
] separates in the middle, and falls down in different directions ; j 
| its head is large and broad at the forehead, being the only part j 
j on which the hair is short, and the snout is of a yellowish-white. S 
) The tail is so short as to be scarcely visible. Its lips are thin ? j 
