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M A M M A L S OF N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 231
day again, however, i n the not distant, future, when the Hudson
Bay Route, now so much decried by many eastern and by
a few western " unbelievers.'' shall have become an accomplished
and successful navigable ocean waterway between
Canada and Europe, the Imperial Government may consider
it advisable to rebuild upon the ruins of the old a new anil
impregnable " Fort Prince of Wales."")
BEARDED SEAL— Erignathus barbatus ( Erxleben).
Although we received no whole skins of this species at
Fort Anderson, we had every reason to believe that it is an
inhabitant of the northern ocean. It is common i n Hudson
Bay and Strait and along the Alaskan coast from Bristol
Bay northward. Boss observed it in Boothia, and it has
also been met with by other Arctic explorers, including
Nares. and Greely obtained several specimens. Tbe latter
gives latitude 81' 4'>' north as the highest point where an
example tS feet 2 ' i inches in length and weighing 640
pounds, gross) was secured. He considers it. a summer
visitor so far north. McClintock mentions that the Dane,
Peterson, shot an example in Relict Strait which weighed
500 pounds, and that its flesh was preferable to that of the
smaller seals. The Eskimos who resorted to Fort. Anderson
made use of the parchment- dressed : kins of this species for
their canoes, and occasionally also for their women's boats,
instead of that of the walrus. They heartily enjoy partaking
of its flesh and oil. no matter how rank it may become
by keeping. They can and do eat raw meat and fish; but
during the summer season, as well as when l i v i n g i n their
winter huts on tbe coast, they cook the former, and the latter
also when fresh, much in the same way as do Indians and
others. During our live years' sojourn at Fort Anderson
we received large quantities of sun- dried reindeer tongues
and venison, in excellent shape for consumption, from the
river Eskimos.
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| OCR | M A M M A L S OF N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 231 day again, however, i n the not distant, future, when the Hudson Bay Route, now so much decried by many eastern and by a few western " unbelievers.'' shall have become an accomplished and successful navigable ocean waterway between Canada and Europe, the Imperial Government may consider it advisable to rebuild upon the ruins of the old a new anil impregnable " Fort Prince of Wales."") BEARDED SEAL— Erignathus barbatus ( Erxleben). Although we received no whole skins of this species at Fort Anderson, we had every reason to believe that it is an inhabitant of the northern ocean. It is common i n Hudson Bay and Strait and along the Alaskan coast from Bristol Bay northward. Boss observed it in Boothia, and it has also been met with by other Arctic explorers, including Nares. and Greely obtained several specimens. Tbe latter gives latitude 81' 4'>' north as the highest point where an example tS feet 2 ' i inches in length and weighing 640 pounds, gross) was secured. He considers it. a summer visitor so far north. McClintock mentions that the Dane, Peterson, shot an example in Relict Strait which weighed 500 pounds, and that its flesh was preferable to that of the smaller seals. The Eskimos who resorted to Fort. Anderson made use of the parchment- dressed : kins of this species for their canoes, and occasionally also for their women's boats, instead of that of the walrus. They heartily enjoy partaking of its flesh and oil. no matter how rank it may become by keeping. They can and do eat raw meat and fish; but during the summer season, as well as when l i v i n g i n their winter huts on tbe coast, they cook the former, and the latter also when fresh, much in the same way as do Indians and others. During our live years' sojourn at Fort Anderson we received large quantities of sun- dried reindeer tongues and venison, in excellent shape for consumption, from the river Eskimos. |
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