344 
WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS 
CHAP. 
bear [Ursus ferox) belongs to this class, and his 
enormous weight would at any time necessitate 
especial care when experimenting upon the strength 
of boughs. I do not believe that any person has 
actually weighed a grizzly, but an approximate idea 
may be obtained through a comparison with the 
polar bear {Ursus maritimus), which is somewhat 
equal in size, probably superior. When I was in 
California, experienced informants assured me that 
no true grizzly bear was to be found east of the 
Pacific slope, and that Lord Coke was the only 
Britisher who had ever killed a real grizzly in 
California. There are numerous bears of three if 
not four varieties in the Rocky Mountains, and 
these are frequently termed grizzlies, as a misnomer ; 
but the true grizzly is far superior in size, although 
similar in habits, and his weight varies from 1200 
to 1400 lbs. 
Mr. Lamont, in his interesting work Yachting in 
the Arctic Seas, gives the most accurate account 
of all Arctic animals that he killed, and having the 
advantage of his own yacht, he was able to weigh 
the various beasts, and thus afford the most valu¬ 
able information in detail. This is his account of 
a polar bear {Ursus maritimus') which he himself 
killed :— 
“He was so large and heavy that we had to fix 
the ice-anchor, and drag him up with block and 
tackle, as if he had been a walrus. This was an 
enormous old male bear, and measured upwards of 
8 feet in length, almost as much in circumference, 
