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to rescue their wounded companion. We followed 
them for some time, but they appeared to be so much 
frightened that it was impossible to get near them 
again. ‘Their vigilance and terror, indeed, was so 
great, that at one time, when upwards of half a 
mile from us, attempting to get on another piece of 
ice, they perceived us going towards them, they 
immediately abandoned the ice and dived agam 
into the deep. I observed that one of them had lost 
one of his tusks, a thing indeed that [am not much 
surprised at; for it is chiefly by their means that 
they manage to get upon the ice ; so that, when we 
take into consideration the enormous weight of their 
bodies, which must on such occasions be chiefly, if 
not entirely, suspended by their tusks, it will appear 
rather a matter of surprise that accidents do not 
befal them oftener than they seem to do. It is said 
also that they occasionally lose their tusks, and some- 
times their lives, in their conflicts with the Polar 
bears. But to return to those facts that came under 
our own observations, I shall briefly state such ana- 
tomical remarks as I have made on the construction 
and appearance of the abdominal viscera of the Wal- 
rus which we killed to-day. After being weighed, and 
the dimensions of the principal parts of his body 
taken, he was opened in a longitudinal direction, 
from the neck to the after part of the body, by 
which means all the internal parts were exposed to 
view at once in their respective situations. 
The hair on the body was thin, and rather coarse, and its colour 
was the same as that described on the Walrus seen yesterday, that 
is, a dark bay on the back, becoming gradually of a lighter colour 
on the sides, and the under part of the body mottled, not unlike 
the commen seal. 
