The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11

kick plank out of the boat. The
first officer was rather afraid and SAID,
IF n walrus gets in the boat l will
hit him with an ax.
I satd: "They can't catch this boat.
Go right around and around and l Will
do the rest of it." There were about
thirty walrr1s. | killed three Of them
and the others charged the boat. but
as we went around they could not
catch us. We secured the wounded
walrus. cut them up and put them IN
the dory. We cached the meat for DR..
Cooks expedition.
Baby Walrus In a Boat.
The natives stack it up the same as
wood and freeze it. | chased up
herd of females once-the males are
generally together and the females are
together with their young-1 chased
this bunch of eight or nine females.
I didn't know they were females until
after I had killed some of them. We
got ND pretty close and circled around.
and as we did so I wounded some OF
them, among others one youngster.
Then the whole lunch stood round the
youngster. which weighed about 200
pounds. The mother was around this
| youngster. holding it up, and that gave
me the chance to kill the old ones.
| Those in the dory began putting the
harpoons in the old ones so they would
not sink. Just wounded this young
ster. which could not swim. Or. Cook
and | pulled him in the launch, and it
almost upset the boat-he was about
FIVE or six months old-and all at once
he began to flap and set UP his fins.
/ was sitting on him. and he threw me
off. | had to hit him over the head
with an ak and kill him or he would
have upset the boat The natives all
laughed. They thought it was such
great fun getting this live walrus In
d boat. We were about eight or ten
miles from the vessel. so we tied those
we had killed and pulled them up on
the shore. eight in ALL | went out the
next day and killed five in the same
place. | finally killed all there were
in the herd. This was about eight
miles from Etah. about 1918 north lat
itude
Then | used to go out and get arc
tic hares. which are really big rabbits.
The natives make boots out of the
sealskin and use the hares for their
socks. Their underclothes consist OF
shirt. for which they use aux. That
Is what they wear during the winter
time, and Dr. Cook and all of his men
wore the same. Sometimes there
would be a school Of walrus of one
or two hundred. all together, very
close to the vessel. They would come
up to breathe. and I used to have q
lot of fun harpooning them. We would
tie them to the boat after happening
them. and they'd give us a good ride,
but they were quite liable to pull our
. boat over.
DR.. Cook and the Musk Ok.
Tbe natives kill all this game witt
harpoons, for they have no other way
though In. late years some of then
have had winchester rifles that Peary
, gave them. They are very curious ant
try to take the rife apart to see how
, 1t is made. and then the rifles get on
IA IeIA Ri NJOOk hlICCt
, rifles and plenty of ammunition. which
he lent to the natives. with four Of
FIVE cartridges each. and when the.
went out shooting they must bring Il
, game for 1t. and then the rifles wer
taken away from them until they wen
. out again.
! There are plenty of musk oxen up Il
. Ellesmere Land. which DIR. Cook en-
countered on the dash to the polt
! When the natives kill these animal
q they freeze them and use every bit q
n them and pile them up for the dog
i and the natives. They make cache
a at different points in crossing the is
land.
Hunting musk oxen in Ellesmer
Land is not at all like hunting tbei
!. in the far north of Canada. Away u
there in Ellesmere they are net nea
!" ly so active and are more 5tupil
" There is less sport in shooting then
of course but DR.. Cook was concerne
!. only in getting food
= The casual reader may have forme
the conclusion that we did Il lot
> unnecessary promiscuous killing. q
: the contrary, we shot nothing whig
: we did not need. There Is nothing
be had for food and for making clotI
:. ing in the far north but wild ANNA
! and fish. The most successful men
: that part Of the world are the be
/, hunters. These primitive people, wit