pie CONCLUSIONS. 
appeared rather to resemble in sleekness that of a seal (148), and 
still more: that it is as woolly as a seal’s (8). Such a hairy skin 
becomes smooth as a murror and ‘lines strongly, when it is wet, 
as may be seen in seals, sea-lions, and sea-bears. 
2. INTERNAL OR ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS. 
It is not astonishing that we don’t know much of its anatomical 
characters, as it never had the honour to be dissected by the able 
hand and keen scalpel of an anatomist. Yet it is clear that if the 
animal opens its mouth, there is an opportunity to learn something 
about its teeth, tongue, etc. Generally it keeps its mouth shut, 
once only this is stated (126), as if the observer watched an op- 
portunity to see it opening its mouth. Though we have several 
accounts mentioning the animal opening its mouth (89, 41, 48, 
65, 81, 109, 118, 144, 149), ¢eeth are not always seen, either 
because the distance was too great, or because the position was 
not favourable. Teeth are delineated (fig. 19); they are mentioned in 65, 
81, 109, 118, described as formidable in 109, and as jagged in 118. 
Of the animal’s ¢onmgue we have the following observations: 
“There rose from his head or the most forward part of him, a 
prong or spear about twelve inches in height, and six inches in 
circumference at the bottom, and running to a small point. I 
thought it not the tongue, as I saw the prong before I saw the 
head, but it might have been” (43, distance forty rods, with a 
spyglass); “I was struck with an appearance in the front part of 
the head like a single horn, about nine inches to a foot in length, 
and of the form of a marlinespike. There were a great many people 
collected by this time, many of whom had before seen the same 
object and the same appearance’ (44); “he threw out his tongue 
about two feet in length, the end of it appeared to me to resemble 
a fisherman’s harpoon” (48); “he raised his tongue several times 
perpendicularly, or nearly so, and let it fall again” (48); “he threw 
out his tongue a number of times, extended about two feet from 
his jaws, the end of it resembled a harpoon” (48); “he threw his 
tongue backwards several times over his head, and let it fall 
again” (48); “the colour of his tongue was a light brown’ (48). 
To the descriptions of the teeth and tongue no great value can 
be attached, as such organs need close examination. The length of 
the tongue is, anatomically spoken, not an impossibility, as it 1s 
known that animals with a long neck generally have a long tongue 
