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of the strength of the wahus, it may be mentioned that an old male, 

 which had been shot and could not move, had yet sufficient strength 

 left to dig its tusks right to the root down into the sand where it lay; 

 and though all the bullets stuck in its head, 18 more were required 

 before it died. At another place (Snenæs ,(ca. 76V3° N. L., 19° W. L.) ^-'/s 06) 

 a wounded walrus had fixed its tusks deep into the frozens now on 

 the land, probably in the endeavour to climb up there. The younger 

 animals we hunted in the water were very shy and endeavoured 

 to get away in on the land, where they went far up on the beach. 



Fig. 6. Dead female walrus at Cape Bismarck -''/s 1907. (Note the converging, 



narrow tusks.) 



That the sense of smell is feebly developed I conclude from 

 this, that although half a score of dead animals lay on the beach 

 after the great walrus hunt in August 1906, and gradually became 

 rotten so that an insuff'erable stench rose from them, yet the remaining 

 animals did not cease to come up on the beach right to their dead 

 comrades — presumably because they imagined that the others lay 

 and slept, as they had done so many nights before in the past 

 years. That the living animals nevertheless had an instinctive 

 feeling, that something was wrong with the dead, appeared from 

 the fact, that when they approached hesitatingly and were quite 

 near to them, they turned back and clambered up the beach at 

 another place. 



