BEAUS. 
Ill 
at length became so bold, as to approach along¬ 
side, tempted probably by the offal of the provi¬ 
sion that had been thrown over-board by the 
cook. At this time, the people were all at din¬ 
ner, no one being required to keep the deck in 
the then immoveable state of the ship. A hardy 
fellow, who first looked out, perceiving the bear 
so near, imprudently jumped upon the ice, armed 
only with a handspike, with a view, it is supposed, 
of securing all the honour of the exploit of captu¬ 
ring so fierce a visitor to himself. But the bear, 
regardless of such weapons, and sharpened pro¬ 
bably by hunger, immediately, it should seem, 
disarmed his antagonist, and, seizing him by the 
back with his powerful jaws, carried him off with 
such celerity, that, on his dismayed comrades 
rising from their meal, and looking abroad, he 
was so far beyond their reach as to defy their 
pursuit. 
A circumstance, communicated to me by Cap¬ 
tain Munroe of the Neptune, of rather a humo¬ 
rous nature as to the result, arose out of an equal¬ 
ly imprudent attack made on a bear in the Green¬ 
land fishery of 1820 , by a seaman employed in 
one of the Hull whalers. The ship was moored 
to a field of ice, on which, at a considerable dis¬ 
tance, a large bear was observed prowling about 
for prey. One of the ship’s company, embolden- 
