ARCTIC WALRUS. 
young into the sea ; and, after having placed them 
in safety, returning with the utmost fury to the 
charge. Upon these occasions they will attempt to 
sink the boat with their long teeth, or to overset it 
by rising underneath. These attacks are truly for- 
midable ; for the whole herd will follow the boat till 
they lose sight of it, roaring in a dreadful manner, 
and gnashing their teeth with great violence. 
Captain Cook has left us the following account of 
the arctic walrus, in his last voyage to the icy con- 
tinent of America : “ They lie in herds of many 
hundreds, huddling over one another like swine; and 
roar or bray so very loud, that in the night, or foggy 
weather, they gave us notice of the vicinity of the 
ice before we could see it. We never found the 
whole herd asleep, some being always upon the 
watch. These, on the approach of the boat, would 
wake those next to them ; and the alarm being thus 
gradually communicated, the whole herd would be 
awake presently. But they were seldom in a hurry 
to get away till after they had been once fired at. 
They then would tumble over one another in the 
greatest confusion. And if we did not at the first 
discharge kill those we fired at, we generally lost 
them, though mortally wounded. They did not 
appear to us to be that dangerous animal which some 
authors have described, not even when attacked. 
They are rather more so in appearance than in reality, 
past numbers of them would follow and come close, 
up to the boats ; but the flash of a musket in the 
Van, or even the bare pointing at one of them, would 
