Chap, viii.] 



SEA ELEPHANTS. 



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intermuscular ridge or crest, and the bones around the nostrils 

 are very strong. In 

 these points the Ele- 

 phant is very different 

 from the Fur-Seal. 

 The beast raised itself 

 on its fore-fiippers, 

 and at the same time 

 twisted up its tail into 

 the air, just as repre- 

 sented in " Anson's 

 Voyages," where the 

 Sea - Elephant was 

 figured for the first 

 time as the Sea-Lion 

 of Juan Fernandez. 



The Ijeast raised 

 its head and opened its huge mouth to the widest, showing 

 formidable teeth and a capacious pinkish gullet, from which 

 proceeded loud and angry roars. It was too young to have 

 a largely developed trunk. There was merely an arched pro- 

 jection thrown up for some little distance above the nostrils, 



OLD WALL .--J.A-LLLI'UA.M OL JUAN 1 l.RNANDEZ 



(Copied from Anson's Voyages.) 



SEA-ELEPHANTS. 



(Copied from Leseiir's Plate.) 



partly by inflation, partly by strong contraction of muscles 

 on each side of the nose. If the beast had got hold of 

 Channer he would have bitten a limb to pieces at one crunch. 

 The head of the stick came off, and so I ran up and put a 

 bullet into the animal's heart. 



This male Sea-Elephant when enraged had its snout much 

 in the condition as that shown in Leseur's plate* in that one 



* "Voyage de Decouvertes aux terres Australes." Peron et Leseur. 

 Paris, 1807. Atlas PL XXXII. 



