236 ARCTIC WALRUS. 
after it, canying it to a secure distance^ and then 
returning, with great rage, to revenge the injury. 
They will sometimes attempt to fasten their teeth 
on the boats, with an intent to sink them ; or rise 
in numbers under them to overset them ; at the 
same time shewing all the marks of rage, by 
roaring in a dreadful manner, and gnashing their 
teeth with great violence ; if once thoroughly irri- 
tated, the whole herd will follow the boats till 
they lose sight of them. They are strongly at- 
tached to each other; and it is said that a wound- 
ed Walrus has been known to sink to the bottom, 
rise suddenly up again, and bring Avith it multi- 
tudes of others, which Imxe. united in an attack 
upon the boat from whence the insult came. 
The Walrus has been tolerably well figured 
by JonstoUj and this figure has been copied by 
succeeding writers. An excellent representa- 
tion is also given in pi. 52. of the last voyage of 
our illustrious navigator, Captain Cook. It is 
easy, however, to perceive a remarkable differ- 
ence between the tusks of this last, and those of 
the former kind figured in Jonston, and it clearly 
appears, that though this difference is not such 
as to justify our considering them as two distinct 
species, yet it obliges us to remark them as va- 
rieties; and it should seem, that, in the regions 
then visited by Captain Cook, viz. the icy coasts 
of the American continent, in lat. 70, the Walrus 
is found with tusks much longer, thinner, and far 
more sharp-pointed, in proportion, than the com- 
mon Walrus; and they have a slight inclination 
