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ARCTIC WALRUS. 
time endeavour to separate those which are most ad- 
vanced from the others, driving them different ways. 
This they call making a cut ; it is generally looked 
upon to be a most dangerous process, it being im- 
possible to drive them in any particular direction, 
and difficult to avoid them ; but as the walruses 
which are advanced above the slope of the echouerie 
are deprived by the darkness of the night from every 
direction to the water, they are left wandering about 
and killed at leisure, those that are nearest the shore 
being the first victims. In this manner have been 
killed fifteen or sixteen hundred at a cut. 
“ The people then skin them, and take off a coat 
of fat which always surrounds them, and dissolve it 
into oil. The skin is cut into slices of two or three 
inches wide, and exported to America for carriage 
traces, and into England for glue. The teeth make 
an inferior sort of ivory, and are manufactured for 
that purpose ; but very soon turn yellow.” 
