A walrus herd on a floating ice cake. Eskimo hunters on a neighboring ice cake 

 shoot the walruses one by one as the heads are lifted. The report of the rifle causes no 

 alarm among the herd perhaps because walruses are accustomed to similar sounds made 

 continually by the ice 



Great herds of females with their young drift northward in the ice fields. It is at 

 this time that hunters, both Eskimo and white men, carry on the wholesale slaughter. The 

 laws of Siberia and the United States prohibit the killing of the walrus within three miles 

 of land — where the walrus is seldom if ever found. Because of this inadequacy of the 

 law, the species is certain to be exterminated within a very few years 

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