flrange, fmce there is hardly any part of the coaft, on either 
continent, nor any of the illands lying between them, that 
is not inhabited, and whofe inhabitants hunt thefe animals 
for their food and clothing. Sea-horfes are, indeed, in pro¬ 
digious numbers about the ice; and the fea-otter is, I be¬ 
lieve, no where found but in this fea. We fometimes faw 
an animal, with a head like a feal’s, that blew after the man¬ 
ner of whales. It was larger than a feal, and its colour was 
white, with fome dark fpots. Probably this was the fea- 
cow r , or manati. 
I think I may venture to affert, that fea and water fowls 
are neither in fuch numbers, nor in fuch variety, as with 
us in the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean. There are 
fome, however, here, that I do not remember to have feen 
any where elfe; particularly the alca monocbroa of Steller, 
before mentioned; and a black and white duck, which I 
conceive to be different from the ftone-duck defcribed by 
Krafcheninicoff *. All the other birds feen by us are men¬ 
tioned by this author, except fome that we met with near 
the ice ; and molt, if not all of thefe, are defcribed by Mar¬ 
tin in his voyage to Greenland. It is a little extraordinary, 
that penguins, which are common in many parts of the 
world, fhould not be found in this fea. Albatrolfes too are 
fo very fcarce, that I cannot help thinking that this is not 
their proper climate. 
The few land-birds that we met with are the fame with 
thofe in Europe; but there may be many others which we 
had no opportunity of knowing. A very beautiful bird was 
fhot in the woods at Norton Sound ; which, I am told, is 
fometimes found in England, and known by the name of 
chatterer. Our people met with other fmall birds there, 
* Hiftory of Kamtfchatka. Eng. Tranf. p. 160. 
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