| From Bristol Bay north to the southern mouth of the | | | | Cape Lisburne, and thence north to Point Barrow, but |
| Yukon walrus are rather numerous for a time in spring, | | | | they were not seen away from the vicinity of the ice. |
| just as the ice breaks up, and again in fall, in | | | | According to the natives living along this strip of coast |
| September and October, before the coast becomes | | | | [Kuskikwim Bay], the young walruses are born early in |
| ice-bound. Some winter off the coast between | | | | spring, when the ice breaks up, during April and May. |
| Nunevak Island and Bristol Bay. The coast between | | | | They report the walruses as being very timid and |
| the Yukon mouth and Golovina Bay is rarely visited by | | | | inoffensive animals at all other seasons, but say that |
| them now, although they were formerly common there | | | | the hunters give a female walrus with young a wide |
| in fall and spring. | | | | berth at this time. The female becomes very savage, |
| In Bering Straits they are very numerous every fall and | | | | and, like a bear with her cub, she has only to catch |
| spring, moving south before the ice-pack in autumn, | | | | sight of an intruder upon her domain to make an |
| and following it as it retreats into the Arctic in the | | | | attack. |
| spring. During nearly all the year a few individuals, | | | | When the Russians first occupied the Fur Seal Islands |
| mostly males, are found about Walrus Island, off Saint | | | | the walrus was very numerous there, but the seal |
| Paul, of the Fur Seal group, where they were formerly | | | | hunters soon drove them from Saint Paul and Walrus |
| abundant. They are also about Saint Matthew Island | | | | skin roofs for Eskimo houses have become rare on |
| nearly or quite all of the year, and occur in great | | | | St. Lawrence Island. They let through a pleasant, |
| abundance about Saint Lawrence Island during the | | | | yellowish light. Below, a walrus-skin boat puts out to |
| migrations. At the latter periods they are also | | | | sea. its passengers, perhaps. Seeking other walruses |
| numerous along the Siberian coast of Bering Sea and | | | | for their food. Walrus tusks that furnish ivory for |
| the straits. North of the straits they are widely spread | | | | harpoon heads, sled runners, boat keels and carvings |
| in summer, but keep in the close vicinity of the ice | | | | for sale to the white people. Some of the clever ivory |
| pack. During the summer of 1881 they were to be | | | | carvings included little animals, cribbage boards, |
| found along the Siberian coast west to Cape North, | | | | paperweights, an ashtray and a necklace of Saint |
| and thence north to Wrangel and Herald Islands, and | | | | George. |
| along the pack easterly to the Alaskan coast, near | | | | |