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the crew having a hatchet, cut it off* 
The animal still, however, continued to 
swim after them, till they arrived at the 
ship, and several shots were fired at 
it, which also took effect; but on reach¬ 
ing the ship, it immediately ascended 
the deck; and the crew having fled into 
the shrouds, it was pursuing them thi¬ 
ther, when a shot from one of them laid 
it dead upon the deck.” Vid. Bewick’s 
Hist . Quadrup. 6th edit. p. 296. 
The walrus is the most dangerous ene¬ 
my the bear has to contend with, and 
his immense tusks often give him a de¬ 
cided superiority. What the bear, how¬ 
ever, wants in strength, he supplies by 
cunning, as he takes huge fragments of 
ice in his paws, and dashing them against 
the head of the walrus, attacks and kills 
him after he is stunned by these blows. 
The one and the other often fall in 
this desperate fray. # 
* Fabr. loc. eit , 
