. Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect. . ch foot. His colour is a yellowish white; his hair longand shaggy. He inhabits Greenland and Lapland, as farnorth as eighty degrees. He lives on fish and seals andthe bodies of whales, which are thrown ashore or which hefinds in the sea. Dr. R. Brown deprecates the stories of thepolar bears ferocity which he regards as greatly exaggerated,though he admits, that when enraged, or suffering fromhunger, they a
. Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect. . ch foot. His colour is a yellowish white; his hair longand shaggy. He inhabits Greenland and Lapland, as farnorth as eighty degrees. He lives on fish and seals andthe bodies of whales, which are thrown ashore or which hefinds in the sea. Dr. R. Brown deprecates the stories of thepolar bears ferocity which he regards as greatly exaggerated,though he admits, that when enraged, or suffering fromhunger, they are formidable foes. That they are wary animalsthe following story quoted from Captain Brown will show. The captain of a Greenland whaler, being anxious to procura bear without injuring the skin, made trial of a stratageof laying the noose of a rope in the snow, and placing apiece of kreng within it. A bear, ranging the neighbouringice, was soon enticed to the spot by the smell of burningmeat. He perceived the bait, approached, and seized it inhis mouth; but his foot, at the same time, by a jerk of therope, being entangled in the noose, he pushed it off with his MILES NATURAL
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