WALRUS, OR SEA-HORSE. 117 



and at the expense of her own life, whether in the 

 water or on the ice. Nor will the young one quit 

 the dam, though she be dead ; so that, if you kill 

 one, you are sure of the other ." The following in- 

 cident is mentioned in Cook's third voyage, when 

 the Resolution and Discovery were returning from 

 Bhering's Straits. "In the afternoon we hoisted 

 out the boats, and sent them in pursuit of the Sea- 

 Horses that surrounded us. Our people were more 

 successful than they had been before, returning with 

 three large ones and a young one. The gentlemen 

 who went on this party were witnesses of several 

 remarkable instances of parental affection in these 

 animals. On the approach of our boats towards the 

 ice, they all took their cubs under their fins, and en- 

 deavoured to escape with them into the sea. Se- 

 veral whose young were killed and wounded, and 

 were left floating on the surface, rose again and 

 carried them down, sometimes just as our people 

 were going to take them into the boat ; and they 

 might be traced bearing them to a great distance 

 through the water, which was coloured with their 

 blood. We afterwards observed them bringing 

 them up at times above the surface, as if for air, 

 and again diving under it, with a dreadful bellowing. 

 The female, in particular, whose young had been 

 destroyed and taken into the boat, became so en- 

 raged that she attacked the cutter, and stuck her 

 tusks through the bottom of it." 



Considering the intelligence and amiability that 

 are thus displayed by the Walrus, we are not greatly 



