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destroyed by them in Europe and America was considerable. Although 
certain magazines delight in stories and pictures of men being treed, 
surrounded, or hunted to death by immense packs of wolves, I do not believe 
that there has been a single case of any traveller or hunter being overcome 
by them during the past thirty years. In a certain English magazine 
which specializes in this type of thrilling adventure, I noticed that nearly 
all the tales had their origin in the Carpathian forests of Galicia; and on 
mentioning this fact to the officer in charge of the crown forests out there, 
he having been resident in the country for fifty years and a man most likely 
to know the truth, he stigmatized all these tales as pure invention. The 
only case I have heard of in Canada where a man has been attacked by a 
wolf occurred in 1901 , when an Indian, who was hunting with an American 
near Lake Kippewa, went to cut a steak off the haunch of a moose that was 
hanging outside the camp. As he took hold of the meat, he noticed that a 
large wolf was holding on to the other side of it, and before he had time to 
use his knife the angry beast sprang upon him and tore his arm and 
shoulder severely. It then let go and retreated into the darkness. 
THE WALRUS 
The walrus ( Odoboenus rosmarus) is another desirable animal, whose 
head and tusks are much prized by the hunter. Until quite recently 
these sea mammals existed in large numbers about the outlying reefs 
between Nome and the Bering Straits; but in recent years the Esquimaux 
have obtained rifles, which, added to the use of their native harpoons, 
have created immense havoc amongst the herds. Moreover, a number of 
vessels nearly all trading in blubber, skins, and walrus ivory, now go 
north annually and take off the spoils of the chase, giving goods in return, 
and this induces the Esquimaux to hunt these animals at all seasons, 
whether the ice is open or absent. South of the Straits the walrus is 
now becoming scarce, so the hunters are now crossing to the Asiatic 
side and hunting them along both the Arctic and Pacific sides of 
Kamchatka, where they still exist in large numbers. Here the walrus 
grows to an immense size, and I have recently examined two heads 
of which the exposed portion of the tusks measured 32 and 36 inches. 
The teeth also are immensely thick, and heavier than those of any Atlantic 
walrus I have seen. 
Nowadays, one of the best hunting trips to be undertaken, alas! only by 
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