IT’O the white bear. 
inland forests. He is usually from four 
five feet high, and from seven to eight 
long, but sometimes grows to be twelve 
thirteen feet in length, and to weigh 
thousand five hundred pounds. The skins o' 
two enormous white bears killed by Barent^' 
measured, the one twelve, and the other tln'^ 
teen feet. 
After clearing the barren islands to whio^’ 
he resorts of the foxes and hares, and 
coasts of the wolves and the common sc"^' 
this animal begins to traverse the vast plnio® 
of polar ice in quest of prey. When his foo^ 
here fails, as soon as he has reached the op®’' 
sea he commits himself to its floating icebei# 
Enormous masses of his domain gradually 
tach themselves around him, and tumble fr^'*^ 
a height of two or three hundred feet into 
sea, with the roaring of thunder, and a coi"' 
motion sufficient to agitate even that boist^'"' 
ous ocean. He keeps his post so long us 
