38 ODOB^NUS ROSMARUS ATLANTIC WALRUS. 



Conspiciebantur ibidem duo majorum capita, dentibus duobus 

 exertis Elepliautorum instar, longis ac crassis et albicantibus 

 muiiita, qui deorsum versus pectus spectabant. Eoruin coria 

 CCCO aut IC pondo pendisse ferebant Angli qui attulerant. 

 Hisce dentibus rupes ascendere seque sustinere ajebaut, et pro- 

 deiiut ill continentem seu terrain ut sommmn ibi capiant grega- 

 tiin. Pabulum ajebant illis esse folia oblonga ac magna, lierbse 

 cujusdam e fundo maris nascentis. Nee piscibus vivere aut carni- 

 vorum esse. Yidi ibidem penem ejusdem animalis osseum, ro- 

 tundum, cubitum et amplius longum, crassum, ponderosum ac 

 soMum, in fine prope glandem longe crassiorem ac rotundiorem. 

 Hujus pulvere ad calculum pellendum Moscovltse retuntui-." * 



A still earlier description of the Walrus is given byPurcliast 

 in bis account of the first voyage "into the Nortb Seas," by 

 William Barents, a Dutch navigator, who met with Walruses 

 on Orange Island, in 1594, translated fi^om the Dutch by W. 

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

 [of Orange], where they found about two hundred Walrashen, 

 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 Scale, with very short 

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

 Ice ; they are hardly kiUed 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 downe 

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

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

 from her againe, and with aU 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 EU long, and are esteemed to bee good as any 

 Ivory or Elephants teeth, especially iii Muscouvia, Tartar ia, 

 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 Wab-uses has received very little attention at the hands of 



*Novus Orbis sen Descriptio ludise Occidentalis, pxi. 38, 39, 1633. 

 tHis Pilgrimes, vol. iii, p. 476. 



