. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. reremundi, of Paul Orosius in his mother tongue, the Anglo-Saxon. Intothis complete and only geographical review of the earths form, asknown at that time, he interwove the relations of Othere and theDane Wulf stan. The former was a great man from Norway; he under-took a voyage of discovery beyond the north cape of his native land,and to the then unknown eastward as far as our modern Finland,which he indicated as the couutrj^of the Beormas. He shaped hiscourse to this region on account of the horse whales, inasmuch asthey have very go
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. reremundi, of Paul Orosius in his mother tongue, the Anglo-Saxon. Intothis complete and only geographical review of the earths form, asknown at that time, he interwove the relations of Othere and theDane Wulf stan. The former was a great man from Norway; he under-took a voyage of discovery beyond the north cape of his native land,and to the then unknown eastward as far as our modern Finland,which he indicated as the couutrj^of the Beormas. He shaped hiscourse to this region on account of the horse whales, inasmuch asthey have very good bone in their teeth; also, this sort of whale ismuch less than the other kind, it being not larger commonly thanseven ells; and states further on that he, Othere, had killed fifty-six in two days. Deschnev the first to see the walrus of Bering Sea.—The earliest personal record made of the walrus of Bering Sea was thediscovery of these animals by Simeon Deschnev, that Cossack who,first of all civilized men, sailed through Bering Straits, October, 1648,. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 167 and who made use of their ivory, en voyage, in repairing his rudeshallop. He also, in 1651, discovered extensive sand shoals north ofthe Anadyr mouth, upon which large herds of Avalrus were in this connection it is proper to say that the walrus of BeringSea is the same animal of which Isaiah Ignatiev learned in 1646, whenhe led a party of Russian fur hunters east of the mouth of the Kolymaas far as Tchaun Buy. He did not see it, however, and traded withthe Tschukchies for the teeth in question. His report of a nationrich in walrus ivory far to the eastward along the shores of the PolarOcean is what stimulated the remarkable voj^age of Deschnev abovereferred to, as w^ell as many others who were not so successful,^ viz:Staduchin, Alexiev, Ankudinov, Buldakov, all in 1647-1649. Boreal range of the walrus of Bering Sea.—The range ofthe Bering Sea walrus now appears to be restricted in the Arc
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