Show A TO CATCH A POLAR BEAK the natives of the polar regions have a most ingenious method ot of trapping bears bean A thick and strong piece ot of whalebone about four inches broad and two feet long is bent doul double ble while in this state some pieces of blubber blabber are wrapped around it and the contrivance placed in the open air where a low temperature renders it hard and compact it is novi now ready for use the natives being armed with bows bow and arrows and taking the frozen mass with them depart in quest of their prey and as soon as the i animal is seen one of them deliberately discharges an arrow at it the bear feeling thi the insult pursues the party now in full full retreat but meeting with the frozen blubber dropped expressly for it swallows the lump lamp aa the chase the exercise of running abd the natural heat beat of the inside soon cause the dissolution of this th I 1 blubber the whalebone freed from in incumbrance springs back to its old position and makes such havoc with tile the intestines that tha t th the e beast discontinues the chase and soon BOOB dies |