Phot:-!. Gilpin Lovering 



HOISTING A WALRUS ABOARD THE SHIP 



By a tackle through the tendons of the tail flippers, the great mass, estimated to weigh 



3,500 pounds, was hauled on deck with the donkey engine. Large rnales measured 13 feet 



from nose to flippers. The "Abler" carried seven carcasses to the Siberian coast as winter 



food for the natives. 



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