The Sea and Its Living Wonders A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

CHAPTER IX.

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SEALS AND WALRUSES.

The Manatees and the Dugongs.--The Seals and the Esquimaux.--King Menelaus in a Seal's Skin.--Barbarous Persecutions of the Seals in Behring's Sea and the Pacific.--Adventures of a Sealer from Geneva. --The Sea Calf.--The Sea Bear.--His Parental Affection.--The Sea Lions.--The Sea Elephant.--The Arctic Walrus.--The Boats of the "Trent" fighting with a Herd of Walruses.--The White Bear.--Touching Example of its Love for its Young.--Chase of the Sea Otter 117