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an end, and it became necessary to give the animals some 
other food. I therefore offered them codfish, but this, although 
it was readily accepted by the two females, was persistently 
refused by the male. I thought I should see him perish of 
starvation before my very eyes, until I tried the experiment 
of offering him some shark. This he devoured with seeming 
satisfaction, thus breaking a fast of no less than a fortnight. 
Later.on he consented to eat codfish like the females, but the 
bones always had to be carefully extracted before it was given 
to him. Feeding walruses is in fact rather like feeding chil- 
dren. The food is held out invitingly before them and they 
take it piece by piece. But their appetites are very far from 
childish. Last month the three young walruses devoured no 
less than 24 tons of fish costing me over £30. Ss 
In September, 1908, my collection was enriched by the 
addition of five more walrus cubs, two males and three females. 
Thus I am now able to exhibit eight of these animals —a fact 
of which I think I am justified’ in being proud, seeing that 
there are none in any other Zoological Garden in the world, 
except that at Copenhagen, and there only one. These five 
were brought me from Hammerfest by a certain Captain 
Hansen, who gave me much interesting information about 
their habits in the wild state, as well as about the mode of 
catching them. Captain Hansen, who is a Norwegian by 
birth, has had considerable experience of hunting walruses, 
which he has carried on in the Arctic. Seas ever since 1886. 
For the last sixteen years he has been captain of a ship of his 
own which he calls Zhe Seventh of June after the date of his 
own baptism. 
~The walruses are killed by harpooning ; a for this 
purpose a peculiar kind of boat is built, about twenty feet 
long and seven feet wide. The boat is not clinker-built like 
ordinary boats, for the planks of which it is made, instead. 
of overlapping, fit exactly into one another, leaving the 
outer surface of the boat quite smooth. The floor of the 
boat is lined with metal, and there is in the forepart a 
