Show STRANGEST OF SEA MAMMALS grotesque walrus as navigators will testify has strongly developed maternal instinct the walruses or sea horses of tho old navigators are the strangest anti anil most grotesque of till all sea their large rugged heads armed with two long ivory tusks and their hugo huge swollen bodies covered with hairless wrinkled and warty skin give thenell them i formidable appearance unlike that of any other mammal they are much larger than most seals tho the old males weighing from 2000 to pounds and tho the females about two thirds as aa much walruses have a strongly developed maternal ina instinct and show grest devotion and disregard of their own owa safety la in defending the young tho the eskimos at cape vancouver bering aca hunt them la in frail skin covered kwaks using hory or bone pointed spears and sealskin heats floats several liu Ilu utera aters told mo me of exciting and dangerous encounters they had experienced etli mother walruses it if tho young are nt tacked or even approached the mother does not hesitate to charge furiously the hunters confess that on such occasions there Is 13 no option but to paddle for ones life occasionally nn an old walrus la Is unusually vindictive and after forcing a hunter to take refuge on the I 1 lap wilt will remain patrol ing tho vicinity for a long time roaring and men menacing a cing tho object of her finger anger |