Hunting Walrus In The Arctic

A corrosponilont writes to tho Nerw Bedford Standard : " For the past thi-eo nr four ycars thc tíorth Paciíic whalíng tíeet have boon tiking walrus in the monthé of Ju) y au 1 August, as tho vvhales iu thosc ingnths go mto the ico abd round Poiuat Barrow, out of the roach of y . During kil the years from lSi'J to 1867 whalüiueu ïad lot tho walrus alone or liad taken ■w. In 1868 H few shipr; oommenced taking walrus, and did quite w: 11, securlng from -UU to 600 walrus and destroyiiig half as many moro. Iu 1869 a largo number of sliijis were cngaged in tho business, but iu 1870 tho wholo fleet (with two.orthree exoeptions) 'went in' and took all they could. Probably nol than 50,000 walrus, with thuir young, were killed and destroyed. THe past year throe-fouvths of the fleet wero ongaged iu tho buanasS) but thú walnu wero s!; ■.', and had gout' ïar into tlie ioe, and tliL-y did not doso well. Shipmasters Bend thoir boats twentyto twentylive miles to find them. "Tho Aretic walrus aro ncarly all fomnles, wlio go into the Arctio iu the suinmer months to bringfortli and nurso their young, which the niothurs are very fond of and attached to. They will nèyer ■! thcir young, Imt will tako ttem :i i toij lip ■ rs aud hold ihi.'iu to thoir ■ destróyer ■ putting tUeir eharp lances through and through theiü, and tl: ■ blbod is stroaining Êrota i'Vciy side, utteiing the most hcartrending and jiiteous crios, until they die ; and thüii the littlu ouo iuust starvo, unless tho wlialuinan can thrust bis lance through it and send it to tho böttom. 1 his is ono of thc niostcruol ocoujatioha that I know of, and mauy a humane whaleman kus feit guilty andtarned aaide iidit. Ofho walrus average aboul I wenty gallons of oil and four ponnds of ivory. ■■'.,.;, Ü ture of tho business is that the natives of the entire Aretic shores, from Cape Thaddeusin the Anidir Sea, to the f arthest point north, a i of moei' than a thousand miles on the west . with the large island of bt. I &wronco, Üie smaller ones of Diomed and [alands, all thickly inhabited, and our ov.".i coast of Xorthorn Alaska, aro now a :; lont npon the for thi ir food, clothing, boots and dwollXwenty yeara ago whalea trote plenty and easily oaught ; but they have boen drivcn north, so that now the nativos BOldom get a whale. Thia is a sad state 'r tlu.'in. The qae now is, shall our whalemen keep on taking t!ie walrus and eventually starvo and púlate these Aretic shores ? It will certainly come to that soon. Al they ftre starving or on the point of Btarvation. peral captains lately arrived home havo told me th ;iü or 40 miles froui Land, on the ioei feying to catch a walrus to eat, and living on tho ■ . ■ , n had l. V.'hat must these poör do this winter, with no whale or walrus 'r ptain Barker, who was shipwreoki winter with them 1 ; bhat thoy were upon the very : ion iu inany plaoes . Irus being i oe and is ashamed of himsolf to agagcd in the ■ l would ■ : ■ ". ■ most of the captains latei) arrived home, and Ütey Uil thé same story."