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oversetting them; at the same time exhibiting all the marks of rage, roaring 
in a dreadful manner and gnashing their teeth with great violence. 
They are strongly attached to each other, and will make every effort in 
their power, even to death, to liberate a harpooned companion. A wounded 
walrus has been known to sink beneath the surface of the ocean, rise sud¬ 
denly again, and bring up with it multitudes of others, who have united in 
an attack on the boat from whence the insult came. 
There is still much uncertainty as to the weight which these animals will 
HEAD OF WALRUS, WITH ESQUIMEAU METHOD OF HUNTING. 
attain. Trustworthy writers set down the weight of full-grown males at 
from 2,500 to 3,000 pounds, but as I have seen several that weighed over 
4,000 pounds, I do not accept those figures. I11 regard to the size of the 
tusks of the Atlantic walrus, a fine pair once in my possession had a total 
length of twenty-four inches, of which probably about eighteen inches would 
have protruded from the jaw during life; the weight of each of these being 
four pounds. Others have, however, been obtained with a total length of 
thirty-one inches, and a weight of upwards of eight pounds apiece; but such 
