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that no seal could by any possibility have worked its way 

 into this inlet from outside. I am therefore quite satisfied 

 that Phoca hispida is resident throughout the year in the 

 localities mentioned. A female killed on August 23, 1876, 

 weighed sixty- five pounds. 



6. Phoca barbata (Fab.) — On several occasions while 

 proceeding up Smith Sound I observed this large seal. We 

 did not see it north of Eobeson Channel. Individuals were 

 procured in Discovery Bay, lat. 81° 44' N.,and also at Thank 

 God Harbour, from whence it has been recorded by Dr. 

 Bessels. I found the skulls of this animal in the ancient 

 Eskimo settlements of Smith Sound. On August 31, 1876, 

 Plans, the Greenlander on board the ' Discovery,' shot one of 

 these seals in Dobbin Bay. I was informed that it weighed 

 510 pounds. On taking off its skin an Eskimo harpoon was 

 found buried in the blubber on its back ; the socket of the 

 dart was made of ivory, the blade being wrought iron. Hans 

 pronounced it to be a Greenland harpoon-head, and suggested 

 that the animal had been struck in the Danish settlements. 

 P. g roenlanclica is recorded by Dr. Bessels ! from Thank 

 God Harbour, but I did not observe it in Smith Sound or 

 northwards. 



7. Tiuchecus liOSMARUS (Linn.) — Kane and Hayes de- 

 scribe the walrus as very abundant in the vicinity of Port 

 P\)ulke, and the Eskimo of Etah must capture a great 

 number of them, as many skulls and bones of this animal are 

 strewed about their settlement, which we found deserted in 

 July 1875. Curiously enough, we did not see one of these 

 animals in the vicinity of Port Foulke nor in Smith Sound, 

 until we reached Franklin Pierce Bay. There, in the vicinity 

 of Norman Lockyer Island, we saw several walruses, and 

 killed two or three. Their stomachs contained fragments of 

 My a and Saxicava, and a considerable quantity of a green 

 oily matter. Near Cape Frazer I saw a single walrus, but as 

 far as my observation goes, it does not proceed further north 



1 ' Tiiilletin de la Societe de Geographie,' 1875, p. 29G. 



