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morton’s journey. 
plunged his nalegeit into a brown walrus; but, startled 
by the savage demeanor of the beast, called for help 
before using the lance. The older men in vain cau¬ 
tioned him to desist. “It is a brown walrus,” said 
they: “Auveh-Kaiolc!” “Holdback!” Finding the cau- 
LANCE - HEAD, FROM MARSHALL BAY. LANCE-HEAD, FROM SUNNY GORGE. 
tion disregarded, his only brother rowed forward and 
plunged the second harpoon. Almost in an instant the 
animal charged upon the kayacker, ripping him up, as 
the description went, after the fashion of his sylvan 
ESQUIMAUX LANCE-HEAD, “AKBAH.” 
brother, the wild boar. The story was told to me with 
much animation; how the brother remaining rescued 
the corpse of the brother dead; and how, as they 
hauled it up on the ice-floes, the ferocious beast plunged 
