THE WALRUS 



THE best of all trophies a hunter can bring 

 back with him from an Arctic expedition is 

 a walrus head. The possession of a fine bear 

 skin may, indeed, be more desirable, but from 

 the sportsman point of view the walrus is the 

 true sporting animal of the North. 



Lamont, who cruised the western seas of 

 Spitzbergen from 1860 to 1865, when walruses 

 were still very numerous, has given us glowing 

 descriptions of the sport. 



Unlike the seal, the walrus does not inhabit 

 the ice-fields. It rarely leaves the coasts, and 

 is to be found in shallow water from which it 

 can easily gain the land to search [for the 

 molluscs which represent its natural food. 

 It sleeps or rests either on the sand or on a 

 floating ice splinter, and it is during this siesta 

 that its enemies elect to attack it. 



Formerly, walrus-hunting was conducted in 



two different ways. When a number of the 



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