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INDIAN WALRUS, 
horse wales, which have in their teeth bones of 
great price and excellence ; whereof he brought 
some on his retunic unto the king.” Hakluyt 
further informs us, that at that period the natives 
of the northern coasts made cables, some of them 
sixty ells in length, of the horse wales and seals 
skins. 
The tusks of the walrus, which weigh from ten 
to thirty pounds each, are used as an inferior sort 
of ivory ; but the animals are principally for the 
sake of their oil. A very strong and elastic lea- 
ther, it is said, may be prepared from the skin. 
The animals frequently weigh from fifteen hun- 
dred to two thousand pounds, and produce from 
one to two barrels of oil each. 
Indian walrus. 
Has two canine teeth, or tusks, placed in the 
upper jaw, pretty close to each other, and four 
grinders on each side, at a little distance from 
these tusks ; in the lower jaw three grinders on 
each side. 
It is found at the Cape of Good Hope, and 
among the Philippine isles ; but little satisfac- 
tory is yet known respecting the natural history of 
this animal. 
Whale-tailed manatju 
The whale-tailed raanati live entirely in the wa« 
ter, and in other respects they so nearly approach 
the whale tribe, as scarcely to deserve the name of 
quadrupeds. What are denominated feet are little 
more than pectoral fins, which serve only for 
swimming. 
They inhabit the seas between America and 
Kamtschatka, but never appear off the coast of 11 
