446 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
to make the scratches there observed on the rock. On one of the 
terraces, at an elevation of a hundred feet, was a well-marked native 
encampment, with lichen-covered friable bones strewed about. As 
a rule the Eskimo do not pitch their tents far from the sea-level, 
and it is therefore not improbable that the land may have risen to 
the present altitude of the encampment since the date of pitching 
the tent. The invariable method of the Eskimo is to keep down 
the sides of their skin-tents by placing stones on the edges. When 
camp is moved the tent is dragged from underneath them, and the 
circle of stones remains in these regions a very enduring monument 
of human labour. 
There were a considerable number of Walrus in the bay, 
generally to be seen in the pools of water over a shoal, or else 
resting on the floe-ice in the same neighbourhood. On one 
occasion I crept to within twenty yards of a group of three that 
were resting on the ice. ‘They were lazy, indolent brutes, basking 
in the sun, and took little heed of my approach. Every now and 
again one or other would open its sleepy eyes and rub its neigh- 
bour’s coat; whether that movement was intended as a signal of 
alarm, or as a good-natured attempt to rid its friend of the parasite, 
Hematopinus trichechi, which infests the skins of these animals, 
most especially between the toes of the flippers, I cannot say, but 
they allowed a boat to get near enough to them to discharge a 
harpoon gun. The largest of the three was struck, and immediately 
dived, but came to the surface as soon as it felt a purchase on the 
line; it then endeavoured to attack the boat, but was soon killed 
with rifle-bullets. The next day a very large old male was captured 
by the same means. The length of this animal along the curve of 
the back from the tip of the nose to the end of the hind flippers 
was twelve feet six inches; girth before fore-arm eleven feet six 
inches, immediately behind the fore-arm eleven feet; its tusks 
measured eighteen and a half inches to the point of insertion in 
the bone, and we estimated its entire weight ataton. We ate 
the liver which was quite palatable, but the flesh, though well 
tasted, was tough and black. Its stomach contained a large 
amount of green fluid oil, in which small particles of Ulva latissima 
could be detected, and minute fragments of the shells of Mya. 
A visit to Norman Lockyer Island showed that a large colony 
of Eskimo must have once inhabited it, for hundreds of walrus- 
skulls lay around the deserted “igloos,” now moss-covered, ‘and 
