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Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1385, 10 September 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Seal- — The seal lives on fish, a diet that no one will question who has ever partaken of the animal. The walrus lives almost altogether on clams, which he digs from the shallow Arctic channels ar.d seas which are so well known as his home. For this purpose bis villainous looking tusks are especially adapted. iSome persons believe that, after each clam is dug, the walrus comes to the surface to " blow." This is inferred from the fact that, when the young ice is forming, and is yet so thin that the walrus disregards it, and sticks his head right through to breathe or "blow." a single clamshell is found deposited on the ice near each hole. The meat is well impregnated with the odor of the clam, but not in that strong disagreeable way that the seal me«vt is permeated with a fishy flavor. No lover of fish can succeed in overcoming this odor in the seal ; but a lover of a clam diet can, I think, leaving out the terrible toughness of the meat, soon get accustomed to a fair meal of walrus meat cooked a la 7mnuit; and the flippers having simmered for a good long day are not unlike pickled pigs' feet served hot, garnished with invisible but omnipresent clams,