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Updated: June 6, 2025
We were very fortunate on our arrival at Baffin's Bay, and very soon had eighteen fish on board. The autumn was hardly commenced before I proposed to return, and we were steering in a southerly direction, when we encountered two or three large icebergs, upon the edges of which the walruses or sea-horses were lying in herds.
"He's right." "Certainly, Conseil. But tell me, haven't you finished classifying these superb specimens of marine fauna?" "Master is well aware," Conseil replied, "that I'm not seasoned in practical application. When master has told me these animals' names . . ." "They're seals and walruses."
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. The dog is the only domestic animal they possess, and they treat it badly enough, although the poor creatures are very affectionate and render them great services, now towing along their canoes, now dragging their sledges over the snow.
"Did you ever see walruses?" asked Junkie, whose active mind was prone to jump from one subject to another. "No, never; but I have seen elephants, which are a great deal bigger than walruses," returned Jackman; "and I have shot them, too. I will tell you some stories about them one of these days not `crackers', but true ones." "That'll be nice!
After the ice disappears walruses are then killed on the small islands, to which they resort to sleep, and are sometimes found in great numbers.
The lightning may be sheet and fork mixed instead of separate for any light we've got on the subject, and it may rain whales and walruses instead of cats and dogs; so it behoves us to be ready." "That's true, father," said Benjy, "but it matters little to me, for I've made my will.
"Come on, then," cried Peter Grim; "don't waste time talking." Thus urged O'Riley rose, and throwing his sledge-strap over his shoulder, plodded on wearily with the rest. Their provisions were getting low now, and it was felt that if they did not soon fall in with walruses or bears they must return as quickly as possible to the ship in order to avoid starving.
They were obliged to throw the dead walruses, chests and ropes out upon the ice! I shook the snow-flakes over them and let them drift southwards to taste the salt water. They will never come back to Behring Island! 'Then you've been doing evil! said the mother of the winds. 'What good I did, the others may tell you, said he.
Soon one and another and another walrus-head came up out of the sea, and then it was understood that a number of cow walruses had come to witness the combat! But the human audience paid little regard to these, so much were they engrossed by the chief actors.
But isn't it taking your mind away from business?" "Ye-es, I think it is. Anyway, we'll try it a few days more." "I fancy we can stand up under the strain and perils. I think we can persuade some of these big farmers to come to the rescue if we encounter any walruses or crocodiles among the wheat. And I have a feeling that if we ever get stuck, our friend of the Teal bug will help us."
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