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minished, yet the white bear is still a terrible animal.’^ 
On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and 
the hunter fired, and each wounded a bear : one of 
them made his escape ; the other turned upon Cap- 
tain Lewis, and pursued him seventy or eighty yards, 
but being badly wounded, he could not run so fast 
as to prevent him reloading his piece, which he again 
aimed at him ; and a third shot, from the hunter, 
brought him to the ground. 
Another instance of the tenacity of life of this 
species occurred in one, which received five balls 
through his lungs, and five other wounds, notwith- 
standing which he swam more than half across a 
river to a sand-bar, and survived twenty minutes. 
He weighed between five and six hundred pounds at 
least, and measured eight feet seven inches and a 
half from the nose to the extremity of the hind feet ; 
five feet ten inches and a half round the breast ; 
three feet eleven inches round the neck ; one foot 
eleven inches round the middle of the fore leg ; and 
his claws, five on each foot, were four inches and 
three eighths in lengthy 
THE MALAY BEAR. 
Ursus Malayanus. Raffles. 
Sir T. S. Raffles observes, ‘‘ This deserves to be 
ranked as a distinct species from the common bear, 
and from that of the continent of India. The most 
