Note 15 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.
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When secured as a cub, he is frequently kept for three or four years. The natives are often seriously wounded in these encounters, but to this they do not object, since such wounds are thought to be marks of prowess, and to be killed by a bear is deemed a very happy death. Most of the writers on the Gilyaks mention this extraordinary procedure; and I heard it confirmed at Mikhailofsky by the missionary.