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fame time a ftrange kind of growling or murmur. However that 
may be, it is pretty certain that the bear feeks his prey, in the 
winter feafon, only in the night time. Now it often happens 
that the Laplander, in fearch of very different game, by means of 
his dogs, difcovers the retreat which the bear has chofen for his 
winter quarters. Whenever this is the cafe, the Laplander pre¬ 
pares to furprife him in his retirement; and in order to this, cuts 
down from the neareft trees a number of branches, which he 
plants and interweaves very ftrongly about the entrance of his den, 
leaving a fpace juft fufficient for him to thruft his head through: 
this done, and being provided with a hatchet, the Laplander fets 
about routing the tleeping animal, who, provoked with the hun¬ 
ter’s temerity and infults, advances with the utmoft rage towards 
the opening ; but no fooner does he put his head through the 
wicket, which has been made for the purpofe, than the hunter 
levels a {broke with the hatchet, which, if it hit him below the 
eyes, to a certainty brings the beafb to the ground. In hunting 
both the rein-deer and bears, the Laplanders make great ufe of 
their dogs. The greafe of the bear is in much requeft with the 
inhabitants as a Ibvereign cure, in form of an unguent, for pains in 
the limbs; but it is a prevailing opinion with them, that it muff 
be applied according to the fcx, the male bear’s greafe as a remedy 
for the man’s ailments, and the female’s for thofe of the woman’s, 
and that, when indifcriminately ufed, it can be of no fervice. 
Few or no lynxes are feen in Finmark, but wolves are very nu¬ 
merous ; and for tliefe there are various names in different parts 
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