True to his promise shortly before sundown Quatty reappeared at Walrus Camp with a tall dignified-looking Seminole dressed in the same manner as himself.
The canoes were then poled round the island to a little bay with a shelving beach that cut into the land opposite the new camp which by unanimous consent had been christened Walrus Camp.
Frank's first action was to bend over the wireless apparatus and send flashing and crackling across the air a message to Camp Walrus to be relayed in haste to the Tarantula.
The night after Ben Stubbs' mysterious vanishment was passed in no very agreeable way by the young dwellers at Camp Walrus and as for Pork Chops his wails when he learned of it rang to heaven and back again.
On all accounts it seemed best to camp on the mound-builders' island for the night and wireless to Camp Walrus their views.
The last thing Frank did before leaving was to call up Camp Walrus on the wireless.
It was not a walrus which lay extended on the snow, and which had so excited Kaas.
I weep for you," the Walrus said; "I deeply sympathize.
The night is fine," the Walrus said: "Do you admire the view?
If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose," theWalrus said, "That they could get it clear?
The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so, And then they rested on a rock Conveniently low: And all the little Oysters stood And waited in a row.
One of the chief characteristics of the walrus is the presence of two elongated tusks (the canine teeth) in the upper jaw.
Like the Polar bear, however, the walrus has evidently been formed by its Creator for a life among icy seas, and there it is now found often in large herds.
Unlike the seals, to which it is closely allied, the walrus has considerable power with its limbs when out of the water, and can support its bulky body quite clear of the ground.
The walrus has two great enemies in its icy home--the Polar bear and the Esquimaux.
Dr Von Baer concludes, from an analysis of all the published accounts, that the walrus is omnivorous.
A walrus rose in one of these pools close to the ship, and, finding everything quiet, dived down and brought up its young, which it held to its breast by pressing it with its flipper.
And Captain Beechey gives the following pleasing picture of maternal affection which he witnessed in the seas around Spitzbergen: "We were greatly amused by the singular and affectionate conduct of a walrus towards its young.
For its mode of getting the walrus we refer the reader to "Excelsior," vol.
The meat of the walrus is not despised by Europeans, and its heart is reckoned a delicacy.
So agreeable a smell as burning walrus fat dispelled all distrust, and brought him within musket-shot.
Each of the dogs received a chunk of frozen walrus meat, something they gnawed on savagely, so great was their hunger.
Andy as the walrus fell back, uttering a roar of pain.
Mr. Dawson, and fired from a distance, the bullet hitting the walrus just below the head.
We could make a mighty haul of walrus meat, and that is what we need.
As a result some large cakes were floated close to the temporary camp, and these were lashed together with walrus thongs.
But this was not fatal, and the walrus still lurched forward.
The walrus flopped backward, and at that moment Andy caught his chum by the leg, and dragged him out of danger.
You bet that somewhere in the icy north that Walrus had been accustomed to sit on the Opposition benches in Committee of Supply.
I 'low Walrus Liz o' Whoopin' Harbor got all she wanted.
I know that on the eastern coast of Africa is found a smaller species of walrus called the dugong; it has long incisor teeth, but not tusks; and certainly resembles a seal rather than a walrus.
Illustration: Then the walrussought refuge among these rocks] "You ran a very great risk," said I.
I supposed thewalrus to be an animal peculiar to the Arctic regions," remarked Ernest.
The flesh and oils of the white whale, seal and walrus being principally sought for, the natives came to this bay from all directions.
This whip was made of braided strands of walrus hide, and tapered from a thickness of two inches at the butt to one long single strand at the tip.
Here the Eskimos had an ample cache of seal and walrus meat killed earlier in the season.
Then, after as brief an interval as discretion seemed to require, the old bear led the way back, sniffed at the body of the fat walrus calf, and crouched down beside it with a long woof of deepest satisfaction.
At the cry of the bereaved mother the two great walrus bulls had turned.
Perhaps the ice pack had been jammed in by wind and current on that side, filling the shallow bay to the bottom and cutting the walrus off from their feeding grounds.
This sudden and dreadful apparition startled the walrus cow into new vigor, so that with a convulsive plunge she tore herself free of the pitfall.
A full-grown male walrus is a very bulky animal, ten to twelve feet long, and his skin is covered with a short coat of hair that in old age almost disappears, while his bulldoglike muzzle bristles with quill-like whiskers.
Of all these animals they can only procure in the winter the walrus and small seal upon this part of the coast; and these at times, as we have seen, in scarcely sufficient quantity for their subsistence.
In attacking the walrus in the water they use the same gear, but with much more caution than with the whale, always throwing the katteelik from some distance, lest the animal should attack the canoe and demolish it with his tusks.
The third and largest weapon is that called katteelik, with which the walrus and whale are attacked.
The walrus is in fact the only animal with which they use any caution of this kind.
Seal’s flesh is forbidden, for instance, in one disease, that of the walrus in the other; the heart is denied to some and the liver to others.
The ice-hole was opened, but, strange to say, although they captured sharks and other great fish innumerable, neither seal nor walrus ever showed head above the water.
Bruin, as the walrus turned right round and confronted him; "why, they haven't quite killed you!
Our heroes had been out after a walrus which they had succeeded in killing.
In a few days the Arrandoon left the desolate island, which Rory had named "Walrus Isle.
While the sailors were skinning the walrus and cutting out the four foot tusks, Sandy snatched up some strips of blubber and vanished.
Steady on, steady on," warned his uncle, "walrus hunting is a very different matter from chasing seals.
The big walrus sank to the surface of the floe with an earpiercing squeal, but wounded as he was, he turned and managed to propel himself along over the ice on his clumsy flippers.
Mr. Dacre as he saw the blood-stained swirl of waters where the walrus had last been seen.
Toward dusk they passed a native canoe or bidarka, a narrow-beamed, cranky craft of walrus skins stretched over frames.
In the churn of the water and the wave of spray that succeeded the sharp report, it could be seen that the wounded walrus had been struck again and had sunk from sight.
That native said that old 'Frozen Face' needed a shampoo wi' seal oil, but I'm thinking that walrus oil will be just as good or better.
Toward him, down the valley leading to the break in the ice, wallowed the retreating walrus herd.
It was the morning after the adventure with the walrus and the Northerner was steaming steadily on toward Valdez, her next port of call on her voyage north.
They also employ the walrustooth for the points of their tomahawks (Fig.
At Kotzebue Sound, Captain Beechey[82] found the natives armed with lances composed of a walrus tooth fixed to the end of a wooden staff (Fig.
The Polar bear is described in Captain Hall's recent publication as an animal capable of capturing the walrus by missile force.
Embracing Walrus Island and Otter Island of the Pribilof group, in Behring Sea, Alaska.
Besides these, bones of a single polar bear and of a few walrus have been found, which show that these animals were caught, though in small numbers; a few bones of whale have also been found.
The horns in the picture of the "Urus" on the Ebstorf map (1284) are very like walrus tusks.
He gave her a gold ring, a Greenland mantle of frieze, and a belt of walrus ivory, and sailed away from the Hebrides with his men and arrived in Norway in the autumn (999).
We see, too, that walrus ivory and ships' ropes of walrus hide had become such valuable objects of commerce as to be demanded in tribute.
The casket, which on account of its rich decoration is of great historical value, is made of walrus ivory.
We must therefore suppose that walrus ivory sometimes found its way at that time to this part of Europe, and it could come from no other people but the Norwegians.
King Alfred evidently did not grasp the essential difference between walrus and whale.
The confusion may have arisen through a belief that the tusks of the walrus were aurochs' horns.
Ottar's Finns had tame and half-tamed reindeer, and their hunting even of such sea-beasts as walrus and seal was sufficiently productive to enable them to pay a considerable tribute.
It must not be supposed, however, that the whale, seal and walrus constitute the entire food supply of the Arctic.
From walrus ivory they sculpture figures of birds, quadrupeds, marine animals, and even the human form, which display considerable individuality notwithstanding their crude delineation and imperfect detail.
And are not the rites observed by the natives on the Siberian coast, when the first walrus is caught, the counterpart of our Puritan Thanksgiving Day?
The slaughter of walrus for ivory and hides, both in the Alaskan and Russian waters of Bering Sea, should be totally prohibited for ten years.
Even the whales of the deep sea, the walrus of the arctic regions, the condors of the Andes and alligators of the Everglade morasses are no exception to the universal rule.
Here is a fence which separates the animal kingdom, having on one side the walrus and ice-fox from the Frozen Ocean, and on the other side the humming-bird from the tropics.
While these preparations were being made, the walrus dived, and while it was under water the man and the boy ran quickly forward a short distance and then lay down behind a lump of ice.
Scarcely had he done so when the spot he had just left was smashed up, and the head of the walrus appeared, grinning, and bellowing as if in disappointment.
Then appears walrus number two, who was thoroughly alive.
Just prior to the incident quoted below, Annatock had discovered a walrus frozen to death and was engaged in chopping him up.
Get a description of a walrus from your reference library, if possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "walrus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
