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When detached from its young , how very different is the character of the polar bear from that I have just described . It is then a most formidable animal , being apparently the natural lord of those frozen regions .
When detached from its young , how very different is the character of the polar bear from that I have just described . It is then a most formidable animal , being apparently the natural lord of those frozen regions .
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They struck him several times , but they only exasperated him ; and he at last pursued two of them so closely , that they jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river ; the bear sprang after them , and was within a few ...
They struck him several times , but they only exasperated him ; and he at last pursued two of them so closely , that they jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river ; the bear sprang after them , and was within a few ...
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vanced a little further , and shot the bear in the head , close by the eye , which did not cause him to quit his prey ; but holding the body always by the neck , which he was devouring , carried it away as yet almost quite entire .
vanced a little further , and shot the bear in the head , close by the eye , which did not cause him to quit his prey ; but holding the body always by the neck , which he was devouring , carried it away as yet almost quite entire .
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taining a particular Account of the Icebergs and other Phenomena which | |
Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Henderick Portenger | 1 |
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia | 1 |
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| Title | New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2 New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Sir Richard Phillips Volume 2 of New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgments ; with Index and Historical Preface, Sir Richard Phillips |
| Author | Sir Richard Phillips |
| Publisher | Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 23 Apr 2007 |
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