. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . stood moaning. But still her cubs notrising to follow her, she returned to them again; and, with signs of inex-pressible fondness, went round pawing them and moaning. Finding at lastihat they were cold and lifeless, she raised her head towards the ship, anduttered a growl of despair, which the murderers returned with a volleyof musket balls. She fell between her cubs, and died licking their Scoresby mentions a singular circumstance Avith respect to a p
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . stood moaning. But still her cubs notrising to follow her, she returned to them again; and, with signs of inex-pressible fondness, went round pawing them and moaning. Finding at lastihat they were cold and lifeless, she raised her head towards the ship, anduttered a growl of despair, which the murderers returned with a volleyof musket balls. She fell between her cubs, and died licking their Scoresby mentions a singular circumstance Avith respect to a partof this animal. The liver, I may observe, as a curious fact, says he, ishurtful, and even deleterious; while the flesh and liver of the seal, on whichit chiefly feeds, are nourishing and palatable. Sailors who have inadver-tently eaten the liver of bears, have almost always been sick after it: somehave actually died ; and the effects on others has been to cause the skin topeal ofi their bodies. This is, perhaps, almost the only instance knownof any part of the flesh of a quadruped proving unwholesome. THE LARGE LIPPED This animal, which was first brought from India about forty years ago,«-as at first misnamed the five-fingered, or ursine sloth. It has, however, Ursus labiatus, Desm. 112 MAM MALI A —B EAR. nothing in common T\ilh the famUy of the sloths, but is a ge:mne curious quadruped is said to have been brought from the partof Bengal, where it burrows in the ground. It is covered with black, sha^gy hair, which on the back is twelve inches long, where it divides andforms a kind of bunch. The hair on its head is short, and the snout isof a yellowish white. The tail is so short as to be scarcely Itslips are thin and very long, and furnished with muscles, by which it canprotrude them in a most singular manner. Its legs and feet resemble thoseof the common bear, and on each foot it has five long, crooked, white claws,which it uses eithe
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