38 ODOB^NUS ROSMARUS ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



Conspiciebantur ibidem duo majoruin capita, dentibus duobus 

 exertis Elephantorum instar, longis ac crassis et albicantibus 

 munita, qui deorsum versus pectus spectabant. Eoruin coria 

 COCO ant 1C pondo pendisse ferebant Angli qui attulerant. 

 Hisce dentibus rupes ascendere seque sustinere ajebant, et pro- 

 deunt in continentem seu terrain ut sominuin ibi capiant grega- 

 tim. Pabulum ajebant illis esse folia oblonga ac niagna, herba3 

 cujusdain e fundo niaris nascentis. Nee piscibus vivere aut carni- 

 vorum esse. Vidi ibidem penem ejusdem animalis osseuin, ro- 

 tundum, cubitum et amplius longum, crassum, ponderosum ac 

 solidum, in fine prope glandem longe crassiorem ac rotundiorem, 

 Hujus pulvere ad calculum pellendum Moscovitse retuntur." * 



A still earlier description of the Walrus is given by Pure-bast 

 in his account of the first voyage " into the North Seas," by 

 William Barents, a Dutch navigator, who met with Walruses 

 on Orange Island, in 1594, translated from the Dutch by W, 

 Philip. The account says they "went to one of those Islands 

 [of Orange], where they found about two hundred Walrushen,. 

 or Sea-horses, lying upon the shore to bast themselves in the 

 Sunne. This Sea-horse is a wonderful strong Monster of the 

 Sea, much bigger than an Oxe, which keeps continually in the 

 Seas, having a skin like a Sea-calfe or Seale, with very short 

 hayre, mouthed like a Lion, and many tunes they lye upon the 

 Ice ; they are hardly killed unlesse you strike them just upon 

 the forehead, it hath foure Feet, but no Eares, and commonly 

 it hath one or two young ones at a time. And when the Fisher- 

 men chance to find them upon a flake of Ice with their young 

 ones, shee casteth her young ones before her into the water, and 

 then takes them in her Armes and so plungeth up and dowiie 

 with them, and when shee will revenge her-selfe upon the Boates, 

 or make resistance against them, then shee casts her young ones 

 from her againe, and with all her force goeth towards the Boate 



thinking to overthrow it They have two 



teeth sticking out of their mouthes, on each side one, each being 

 about half an Ell long, and are esteemed to bee good as any 

 Ivory or Elephants teeth, especially in Muscouvia, Tart aria, 

 and thereabouts where they are knowne, for they, are as white, 

 hard, and even as Ivorie." 



SEXUAL DIFFERENCES. The subject of sexual differences in 

 the Walruses has received very little attention at the hands of 



* Novus Orbis seu Descriptio Inclise Occidentalis, pp. 38, 39, 1633. 

 tHis Pilgrimes, vol. iii, p. 476. 



