BEAR. 
fuftain great Ioffes by the glutton : authors have 
pretended, that it feeds fo voracioufiy, that at 
length it is in danger of burfting j and that it is 
obliged to eafe itlelf of its load, by fqueezing it 
out between two trees. 
In a wild ffate is vaftly fierce ; a terror to both 
wolf and bear, which will not prey on it when they 
find it dead, perhaps on account of its being fo 
very foetid, fmelling like a pole-cat: makes a flrong 
refiftance when attacked, will tear the fcock from 
the gun, and pull the traps it is caught in to pieces : 
notwithflanding this, is capable of being tamed, 
and of learning feveral tricks*: burrows+ , and has 
its den under ground. The fkin fold in Siberia for 
four or fix (hillings; at Jakutjk for twelve ^ and dill 
dearer in Kamtfchatka , where the women drefs their 
hair with its white paws, which they efteem a great 
ornament: the fur is greatly efteemed in Europe \ 
that of the North of Europe , and Aft a, whofe 
ikins are fometimes to be feen in the furriers 
fihops, is infinitely finer, blacker, and more gloffy 
than that of the Wolverene, or American kind. 
The Glutton has, by feme authors, been com 
founded with the Hyaena , and Charlevoix , in Hi ft, 
Nouv. France v. 189, gives the name of this ani¬ 
mal ( Carcajou ) to our 129th fpecies, the brown pam 
ther of N. America . 
* Hi/f. Kamtfchatka, gq, 100, 
j La Hontans t voy. I. 62. 
Raccoon 
