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feet armor, against wliicli even dogs' teeth could not 

 prevail), I concluded to wait. To-day, however, it was 

 cut up, and to our astonishment, instead of a foetus, we 

 found part of a young seal (oogook) in its stomach ; 

 known to be young because having its first coat of 

 hair. It is well known that the walrus eats shell-fish, 

 clams, etc., which it digs up with its tusks, but this 

 fact proves the carnivorousness of this mammal. 



Mr. Dunbar and Alexey while away on a tramp to- 

 day shot and apparently killed a walrus, but he es- 

 caped them by sinking. The place recommended to 

 fire at is under the throat upward, that the ball may 

 reach the brain. Such a tremendous bone is over the 

 brain that a bullet will flatten on it. Mr. Dunbar's 

 shot struck him in the neck, and the wound appeared 

 to craze him, for he tore along breaking through young 

 ice, bleeding heavily, without attempting to escape by 

 diving. Alexey then fired and hit him in the head, 

 whereupon the carcass straightened out and sank. 



Everything being in place, the windmill was attached 

 to the shifted bilge-pump to-day and set to work. The 

 wind was hardly strong enough to enable it to work 

 this large pump, the mill occasionally hanging fire on 

 the centre. As it was originally intended for a pump 

 of boiler tubes three inches in diameter, making it work 

 a pump six inches in diameter was hardly a fair trial. 

 We were calling upon the pump for four times as much 

 work as it was designed to perform. However, with 

 slight change, we believe we can make it work this 

 pump, and so save the time and labor necessary to 

 make a three-inch pump. The change suggested by 

 Chipp is to remove the canvas sails and substitute tin 

 ones, which being but little heavier will stand flatter 

 and offer more resistance -, and this is put in train, the 



