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began to lick their wounds. She went off a second 
time as before ; and, having crawled a few paces, 
looked again behind her, and for some time stood 
moaning. But still her cubs not rising to follow 
her, she returned to them again ; and with signs 
of inexpressible fondness, went round, pawing them, 
and moaning. Finding at last, that they were 
cold and lifeless, she raised her head towards the 
ship, and uttered a growl of despair, which the 
murderers, returned with a volley of musket balls. 
She fell betwen her cubs, and died licking, their 
wounds. 
The males, says Mr. Hearne, are, at a certain 
time of the year, so much attached to their mates, 
that he has often seen one of them, when a female 
was killed, come and put his two fore paws over 
her, and in this position suffer himself to be shot 
rather than quit her. 
During the winter, these animals retire and bed 
themselves deep in the snow, or under the fixed ice 
of some eminence ; where they pass in a state of 
torpidity the long and dismal arctic night, and re- 
appear only with the return of the sun. 
Their flesh is white, and said to taste like mutton ; 
but their liver is very unwholesome ; their fat is 
ipelted for train oil ; and that of the feet is used in 
medicine. 
One of this species was brought over to England 
a few years ago, and exhibited in many places. 
It was very furious ; almost always in motion ; 
roared loud ; and seemed very uneasy, except 
when cooled, by having pail fulls of water poured 
upon it. 
Land bears, r sometimes spotted with white, 
at other times wholly white, are sometimes seen 
in the parts of Russia bordering on Siberia, in a 
wandering state, and are supposed to have strayed 
out of the lofty snowy mountains which di vide the 
