38 ODOB^NUS ROSMARUS ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



Conspiciebantur ibidem duo majorum capita, dentibus duobus 

 exertis Elephantoriun instar, longis ac crassis et albicantibus 

 munita, qui deorsmn versus pectus spectabant. Eoriua coria 

 CCCC ant 1C poudo pendisse ferebant Angli qui attulerant. 

 Hisce dentibus rapes ascendere seque sustinere ajebant, et pro- 

 deuut iu continentem seu terrain ut soniuuun ibi capiant grega- 

 tim. Pabulum ajebant illis esse folia oblonga ac magna, Iierba3 

 cuj usdam e fimdo maris nascentis. Nee piscibus vivere aut carui- 

 vormn esse. Vidi ibidem peneni ejusdern animalis osseuin, ro- 

 tundum, cubitiun et amplius longmn, crassum, ponderosuni ac 

 solidum, iu fine prope glaudem louge crassiorem ac rotundiorem. 

 Hujus pulvere ad calculum pelleudum Moscovitse retuntur." * 



A still earlier description of the Walrus is given byPurchast 

 in his account of the first voyage " into the North Seas," by 

 William Barents, a Dutch navigator, who met with Walruses 

 on Orange Island, in 1594, translated from the Dutch by W. 

 Philip. The account says they "went to one of those Islands 

 [of Orange], where they found about two hundred Walrushen, 

 or Sea-horses, lying upon the shore to bast themselves in the 

 Sunne. This Sea-horse is a wonderful strong Monster of the 

 Sea, much bigger than an Oxe, which keeps continually in the 

 Seas, having a skin like a Sea-calfe or Seale, with very short 

 hayre, mouthed like a Lion, and many times they lye upon the 

 Ice ; they are hardly killed unlesse you strike them just upon 

 the forehead, it hath foure Feet, but no Eares, and commonly 

 it hath one or two young ones at a time. And when the Fisher- 

 men chance to find them upon a flake of Ice with their young 

 ones, shee casteth her young ones before her into the water, and 

 then takes them in her Armes and so plungeth up and downe 

 with them, and when shee will revenge her-selfe upon the Boates, 

 or make resistance against them, then shee casts her young ones 

 from her againe, and with all her force goeth towards the Boate 



thinking to overthrow it They have two 



teeth sticking out of their mouthes, on each side one, each being 

 about half an Ell long, and are esteemed to bee good as any 

 Ivory or Elephants teeth, especially in Muscouvia, Tartar ia, 

 and thereabouts where they are knowne, for they are as white, 

 hard, and even as Ivorie." 



SEXUAL DIFFERENCES. The subject of sexual differences in 

 the Walruses has received very little attention at the hands of 



* Novus Orbis seu Descriptio India} Occidentalis, pp. 38, 39, 1633. 

 tills Pilgrinics, vol. iii, p. 476. 



