206 Frits Johansen. 



Fig. 2. F'emale Walrus on a piece of drift-ice. Кар Bismarck '■ I« i;)07. 



Seals (Pumipedia). 



Walrus {Trichecbus rosmarus L.). 



As is well-known, this seal is in high degree bound to the coasts, 

 or the banks of the sea in the neighbourhood of the coasts. 



The places in North-East Greenland where the walrus was met 

 with furthest out to sea were ca. 10 miles ofY Store Koldewey 

 (76^ 16' N. L., 17^'4° W. L.), where a walrus rose to the surface 

 near to the ship. The depth here was ca. 130 m., and there was 

 much open water wàth scattered ice-floes, while in under the land 

 there lay a broad belt of coastal ice; this is perhaps the reason w^hy 

 the walrus was seen so unusually far out to sea (^^/s 06). Further, 

 it was frequently observed in the sea or ice round Maroussia Island 

 (76°40'N. L., 18^' 33' W. L.), and its bones were also common in the 

 Eskimo meat-depots on Orléans Island (77°38'N. L., 17°39'W. L.). 

 — With regard to the distance it goes up in the fjords, 

 there is no limit here, provided that the ice is not thicker than it 

 can break; it has been met with in the innermost bights, even at 

 places, where the water was practically fresh from the outflowing 

 rivers. This was the case at Hvalrosodden (76°54' N. L., 20°5' W. L.), 

 where especially in August 1906 I had abundant occasion to observe 

 these animals. The whole of the foreland here consists of raised 



