It was, indeed, with sorrow that we thought of the lost walruses now drifting out there in the storm; but we were glad that we were not still in their company.
We saw several walruses in the vicinity, but fortunately escaped being attacked by any of them.
We passed two or three herds of walruses lying on the ice near it.
As we just then passed a herd of walruses we determined to take some of this despised food, and we shot one of them, killing it on the spot.
Out in the sea the walruses were blowing and bellowing incessantly, but everything passed unheeded by the two weary warriors in the tent; they slept soundly, with the bare ground for their couch.
As walruses swarmed on all sides, we did not much like paddling singly, and for some distance lashed the kayaks together; for we knew how obtrusive these gentlemen could be.
The day we had skinned our last walruses I had taken several tendons from their backs, thinking they might be very useful when we made ourselves clothes for the winter, for we were entirely without thread for that purpose.
The first thing I should like to have done was to have shot the walruses that had been lying on the ice during the first day or two; but now, of course, they were gone.
While I was walking up and down I several times heard walruses round about, as they butted holes in the ice and put their heads through; and I was thinking to myself that I should soon have them here too.
The next day (September 24th), as we were setting out to work at our hut, we saw a large herd of walruses lying out on the ice.
When we reached navigable waters again, we passed a flock of walruses lying on a floe.
And it is in this friendly manner that walruses receive their guests.
N600] The larger seals and walruses appeared to be divided among the boat's crew, the owner of the boat apparently keeping the tusks of the walrus and perhaps the skin.
Both the images bear a strong resemblance to the rude carvings of walruses from Siberia figured by Nordenskioeld.
In removing the last of the blubber from the skins of seals or walruses when they wish to save the oil, they scrape it off with a little oblong cup of walrus ivory with a sharp edge at one or both ends.
Swimming walruses are chased with the boat and "fastened to" by darting the harpoon.
Here and there, on small fragments of floating ice, were seen huge walruses basking in the golden sunshine.
Two of these were completely equipped for whaling, so as to be able to follow and capture walruses and narwhals.
The idea may have arisen through a misunderstanding of stories that the walruses often lie in great herds, close together, on the tops of skerries and small islands, and are there speared in great numbers by the hunters.
The fur-seals, sea-lions, and walruses use the hind legs to scramble about on the rocks or beaches of the shore.
Soon they came to a place which had been kept open by walruses as a breathing-hole.
Some miles out on the ice they came to a place which the walruses had kept open as a breathing-hole.
The cry seemed to be a summons, for answering cries were heard all round, and the walruses were seen to be converging towards their savage old chief.
They feed upon the half-raw flesh of seals and walruses hunted by themselves, or on that of whales flung up by the waves on the beach.
They were starving," returned Ujarak quickly; "but two walruses and four seals were brought in yesterday and my torngak has told me that he will point out where many more are to be found if I consult him on the night of the feast.
The children look on eagerly while the men get knives and lances ready, for perhaps news has just come that walruses have been seen on the ice floes miles away up the coast.
When a number of walruses are together they will often turn on the hunters with fury.
Two white bears and many walruses were seen on a small island near Whale Island; but the weather was too stormy to permit us to pursue them.
A number of walruses were observed lying on a small ridge of rocks.
In the course of this day the walruses became more and more numerous every hour, lying in large herds upon the loose pieces of drift-ice; and it having fallen calm at one P.
In the mean time, I requested Captain Lyon to stand over to the point of Igloolik, where our walruses had been landed, and to bring off these, as well as our boats and tents remaining there.
The walruses were here very numerous, lying in herds upon the ice, and plunging into the water to follow us as we passed.
In every direction around the huts were lying innumerable bones ofwalruses and seals, together with sculls of dogs, bears, and foxes, on many of which a part of the putrid flesh still remaining sent forth the most offensive effluvia.
Accordingly, walruses are the victims of a mindless hunting that soon will destroy them all, since their hunters indiscriminately slaughter pregnant females and youngsters, and over 4,000 individuals are destroyed annually.
Walruses resemble seals in the shape of their bodies and the arrangement of their limbs.
Suddenly Kaas, who ran ahead of them, put to flight some of the walruses which they had seen in the distance.
These walruses doubtless inhabited the caverns and crevasses in the ice, and believing themselves perfectly secure from any attack, were basking in the sunshine.
Not long ago it was discovered by the Bureau of Education that the walruses were being slaughtered by the wholesale.
I retired at eleven-thirty but was up again at four and entertained myself by watching the seals and walruses playing near the boat.
Walruses have no external ears, as in the Phocidae; but when on land the hind-feet are turned forwards and used in progression, though less completely than in the Otariidae.
It was agreed that we should catch as many bears and walruses as we could, so that we might have materials for constructing the hut as well as for covering ourselves.
As before, excursions were undertaken in search of walruses and seals, with a slight hope of meeting with a whale, which might come up to breathe in a pool.
We fed thewalruses on gruel, which seemed to suit them very well.
As the sea was now open to the northward, we sailed slowly on, the boats frequently being sent in to shootwalruses or seals, of which vast quantities were seen on the rocks and floating ice.
We made the boat fly through the water, while ahead was the herd of walruses bellowing, snorting, blowing, and splashing.
If we are compelled to remain here we shall be able to obtain a supply of fish, while it is the sort of spot walruses and seals are likely to frequent.
Hitherto the bears we had shot had afforded us food and fuel; but they might take their departure, and we should then have no other food on which to depend, until the return of spring should enable us to kill walruses and seals.
Though whales were somewhat scarce, we killed walruses and seals sufficient to satisfy the skipper, a good many bears, and a vast number of birds.
I killed three deer and a bear which one night paid us a visit, and Sandy killed two walruses which he found asleep on the rocks.
Tame walrusesare used be th' Eskeemyoos, th' old settlers iv thim parts, as lawnmowers an' to press their clothes.
It is well known that bears, polar-bears, seals, and walruses are largely infested by nematodes (Asc.
They caught lobsters in the rock pools, and speared or clubbed seals and great walruses for their flesh and oil.
On the north of Nova Scotia lies the large Prince Edward Island, and north of this again the small group of the Magdalen Islands, discovered by Cartier, the resort of herds of immense walruses at one time.
As numerous almost as the sea birds were the seals and walruses which frequented the Newfoundland coasts.
In this way, hiding and darting forward, Myouk, with Morton at his heels, approaches the pool near the edge of which the walruses are at play.
It seemed to be the purpose of the walruses to get their tusks over the side of the boat, and so easily tear it to pieces or sink it, and then, having its audacious crew in the water, make short work of them.
And in that moment the bear succeeded in dragging her prize up a steep where the walruses could not hope to follow.
Walruses were not the quarry she would have chosen.
As we stood on the beach, we could see the walruses blowing like whales as they came up the fiord, and our friends eagerly paddling out towards them.
When the other walruses saw this, they also swam towards the canoes to the assistance of their companions, and a regular contest commenced between man and beast.
Every lamp was now swimming with oil, the huts exhibited a blaze of light, and never was there a scene of more joyous festivity than while the cutting up of the walruses continued.
Henriksen awoke me this morning at 6 with the information that there were several walruses lying on a floe quite close to us.
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