Show OO C bocc bear F family amily widespread throughout the world from polar regions where the huge white bear Is the ruler of snowy wastes to the tropics where the little cinnamon bear haunts the jungle or to the antipodes where much smaller are styled bears every part of the world has or app appears ears to lo have had bad some member ot of t tha he bear family among its aboriginal tants despite the evidence 0 of scripture see sceptical P tacal critics for many years derided the idea of bears existing in syria or the holy land ignorance of ordinary historical facts was part of tho equipment of these doubters they knew nothing of nor studied the accounts of the life history of the good knight godfrey of bouillon who with ills his brothers eustace and baldwin led fl an army of forty thousand german soldiers Old lers to join the crusade to deliver jerusalem from the saracens saracena Sara cens towards toe ebe end of the eleventh rie century aal aaa iwho who during the long siege of andlor r in sina went alone to the defense of a poor woodcutter against a fiercely bear in n wh ach encounter hc ha was wag badly mauled hauled although he did come out of the conflict victoriously at the last certain certainly y godfrey do de bouillon would bear witness to the tact fact that there was nothing incongruous in the story david told of having killed a bear in protecting his fathers sheep at bethlehem samuel 1734 33 |