| Show 11 Polar Bears an Odd Mixture of f Cowardice and Daring The character ot of the tho polar boor boar Is a curious mixture ot of cowardice and tar dar darIng I Ing far It will ily at the tho sight ot of man mani i but will 1111 often come close tip to the huts alit sometimes even een try to enter entert t them says London Fl Field When met with In tie the waters bears 1 I are killed with harpoons On receiving the first wound the animal utters loud I roars seizes time the weapon with It Its teeth I pulls It out of the Injured part lIrt and 4 hurl It far awa away Sometimes but by byno byI I no io means invariably It will turn Us Its Quickly It receives a an ii 4 other spear or bini arrow from a see H Hond end ond kayak kank mann man front whom lIe turns turn i utter treating lila hili weapon In thi sante santer r manner and sometimes It iti i mid in III thIs way Ia the struggle gl I is contin tied until the bear Is overcome The l 1 most Important rule rul q the hunters have tu to observe la is lawhn ishien hien durIng the fight the hR hiss dived to keep a sharp I eye down Into t the water In order that It ilia may not hot come ome u up unawares right II a kayak Its i i white gleam can always be seen when It approaches the sUrface and there is III time to get et away if Ie It be coming too I near When Then a bear Is encountered la in lathe I Ithe the water or amid somewhat scattered Ire ice its Is considered a certainty for although In an excellent swimmer It gt get away aRY from n a kayak In Inthe Inthe the northern colonl where they lire are seldom seen peen the tho UrK appear to be of them bu but t such Is tar corn l being the ease In the whose In III the water at an any rat rate II they tire lire con nf ax much loas Iw dangerous than the walrus or the hood hooded od ed seal 1001 The food of beAt bears consists mainly of seals which however they cannot seize zo In the water but only when lying on oil the shore horl or on loe lc but nil an the seal when In such h positions I ix extremely watchful and war the Is often tultI fruitless anti and the bear benr is IR obliged tI more than suits it II to depart with an stomach arrion HII they take tako lit at an any tine time In summer ummer they rob nests ote of eggs and on ones I And appear to he be partial also to ber berrice rice too they live upon 1 ata fowl seIzIng theta tram from below while restIng on the water According to their ordInary COOt food la Ia lab lIah Ind and they even een capture salmon In the sea This however I ha have e never had eon con b by the who al all consider that the bears power powers ot of swimming would not b be equal to I it According to the same authority neith or reIndeer foxes nor birds are Iato cafe trout tram the lie 1 polar bear lut but this I think I II Is Isa I a mistake has haK Intended that It should seek lek Is its prey In the Water and andon andon I on the Ice rather than on the land hand When rea really 1 hungry hunY there lire are few lew thInKs things which h n a bear wi will reject down downto to old ohl skin garments carment and tarred ropes which IOn tony sometimes Fe ba found lit In II its stomach I It Is under such stances that It ventures CIOll close to the hints hUl and devours whatever It can find sometimes attempting to enter In the winter of a bear was IM shot It itt wih with the whole or of the tho fore loro forepart part of thE the bod body In an oi oil ck cask which It was 1 licking In the dil dis It is III not Unusual for these animals to visit the s provisIon lon stores where they keep kep their dried seals teh Ill etc tear the stones away from the entrance and clear cleu the place I aCe completely out out |
