Le voyage de la Vega autour de l'Asie et l'Europe ; avec un examen historique des précédents voyages le long de la côte nord de l'Ancien Monde . nous étant portée à l'Europe en vie. Ainsi, il est dit (Purchas, III, p. 500), thatMaster Welden et Stephen Bennett, sur le f|E, juillet 1608,deux jeunes morses capturés vivants, l'un un homme et que l'othera femelle. La femelle est mort avant d'atteindre l'Angleterre, butthe homme vécu dix semaines. Il a été procédé à la cour, le roi shownto et beaucoup d'honorables collègues, et d'admiration pour son excitedgeneral forme extraordinaire et une grande docilité. 1-22 LE VOYAGE DE LA VEGA. [Chap. A vous

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The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . us being broughtto Europe alive. Thus it is said (Purchas, iii., p. 500), thatMaster Welden and Stephen Bennet, on the f|th July, 1608, caught two young walruses alive, one a male and the othera female. The female died before they reached England, butthe male lived ten weeks. He was carried to court, shownto the king and many honourable gentlemen, and excitedgeneral admiration for his extraordinary form and great docility. 1-22 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. A young walrus that was taken to St. Petersburg in 1829-80, also died in a short time. It gave occasion to K. E. von Baersfamous treatise: Anatomische und zoologische Uutersuch-ungen iiber das Wallross, printed in M6moires de rAcacUmieImpiriale des Sciences de St. Petcrsbourg, ser. vi, , t. iv. 2, 1838, p. 97. The walrus is hunted for its skin, blubber, and oil. Thevalue of a full-grown walrus was calculated at Tromsoe, in1868, in settling accounts between the owners of huntingsloops and the hunters, at eighty Scandinavian crowns (say. WALRUS HUNTING. After Olaus Magnus (1555). 4/. 10^.), but it sank in 1871 to only forty-eight crowns (say11. 15s.). The flesh of the walrus is coarse and train-flavoured, and is eaten by the hunters only in cases of necessity. Frommy own experience, however, I can certify that its compara-tively small tongue is very delicious. By the Eskimo and theChukchis the flesh of the walrus is considered a delicacy. The walrus was doubtless hunted by the Polar tribes longbefore the historic period, ^ but it is mentioned for the first timein writing in the sketch of Otheres Arctic journey. Thenarrative shows that it was then captured on the north coast ofScandinavia. This appears the less improbable, as a walrus nowand then even in our days drifts to land on the Norwegian coast, and walruses are still annually killed off Swjatoinos on theKola peninsula.-^ The walrus is

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