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THE WHITE BEAR. 
Hungry with the voyage, they scruple not 
attack man himself; but Horrebow relate® 
that the natives are always able to escape 
their fury by throwing down something 
amuse them. “A glove,” he says, “isvei'/ 
proper for this purpose ; for the bear will 
stir till he has turned every finger of it insi^^ 
out ; and, as these animals are not very 
terous with their paws, this operation take® 
up some time, which affords the man oppor 
tunity to make off.” 
The polar bear frequently displays treinei^' 
dous fierceness. Barentz, in his voyage i” 
search of a north-west passage to China, 
fatal evidence of the ferocity of these anim^*’^ 
in Nova Zembla, where they attacked his m®'’’ 
seizing them in their mouths, carrying the-'^’ 
off with the utmost ease, and devouring the”’ 
even in sight of their comrades. 
Bewick relates a remarkable instance 
the ferocity of the arctic bear. The creW e 
