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ter, than any of the animals that are in the ha¬ 
bit of attacking it. 
Besides the whale now captured, we killed, 
during our stay near the same place, two female 
narwals, one of which, a case most extraordinary, 
if not unprecedented in this sex, had an external 
horn. The horn was 4 feet 3 inches in length, 
of which 12 inches were imbedded in the skull. 
It had also a milk tusk, as is common in others 
of the sex, 9 inches long, of a conical form, and 
obliquely truncated at the thicker end, without 
the knob found in many of the milk' tusks. The 
horn, as in the male, was on the left side of the 
head, and the spiral dcxtrorsal. The length of 
the animal was 13 feet 6 inches. It was beauti¬ 
fully variegated with bluish-black or grey spots. 
It differed in no respect from other females of the 
same age, excepting with regard to the horn. 
The other narwal that was killed at this time, 
had two milk-tusks, as usual, concealed in the 
bone of the skull. They were both eight inches 
long, with a small oblique irregular knob at the 
base. 
My Father sent me the contents of the sto¬ 
mach of a narwal, killed a few leagues to the west¬ 
ward of us, which were very extraordinary. They 
consisted of several half digested fishes, with 
others, of which the bones only remained. Be- 
