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have been drifted to the coasts of Iceland and even Norway. 
They are then indeed terrible, and make an indiscriminate rush 
on anything before them, be it Man or brute. Circumstances of 
this kind have certainly contributed to form the reputation they 
have acquired of untameable ferocity. 
Living in the midst of perpetual ice, the White Bear naturally 
dreads heat. Pallas, who observed one that was kept captive at 
Kranojack, in Siberia, says that it could never remain long in its 
house. Although the climate there is very inclement, it took a 
constant delight in rolling in the snow. The White Bears in 
Fig. 177.— Malay Bear ( Ursus Malay anus, Raffles). 
the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, suffer so much from the heat of 
summer, that it is impossible to keep them alive for any length- 
ened period. Cuvier, however, says that one lived there for 
fifteen years, owing to the care that was taken, both in winter 
and summer, to refresh it by throwing over its body sixty to 
eighty pails of water daily. 
The White Bear never becomes familiar with Man. When in 
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