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Needless to remark Agnes and Cecily were exceed- 

 ingly chagrined at their failure to bag a walrus in 

 their first attempt. We were doubtful if the animals 

 would return to the same neighbourhood for some 

 time after being thus rudely disturbed, but Macdonald 

 declared that it was hard to drive them away from a 

 favourite haunt, and that, as there were no native 

 settlements within a long distance of our lagoon, prob- 

 ably this particular herd of walruses had never been 

 hunted by men, and therefore they might not be very 

 wild, and would probably return before long to one or 

 other of the sandbanks. 



