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the straits and the shores between these capes, as well as the shores to the south of the Straits, 

 as far as the Aleutian Islands. Their numbers are perhaps greater about Bhering's Straits now than 

 anywhere else, as they appear to form the chief resource of the inhabitants from Point Earrow to 



Ehering's Straits. They do not resort to the Aleutian Islands themselves, they having been there at 



least on those of the islands next to Asia — replaced by the Rhyi'ina ; and although that Sea Cow 

 has ceased to exist, the "Walrus seems to have respected former boundaries, and not to have 

 intruded on its neighbour's territories, although the proprietor coidd never again come to main- 

 tain his rights or resist encroachment, a respect for the rights of property not always found in 

 animals higher in the scale of life. 



