"I don't suppose there's even a water-baby left!" the boy said, laughing.
"No," was the reply. "We couldn't give it any milk now, the sea-cows have been all killed off."
"Sea-cows?"
"Big creatures, bigger even than walruses. Lots of them here some time. We find their bones everywhere. Nearly all our sled-runners are made of sea-cow bones. They grazed like cattle below
water on the seaweeds of the shore and the natives used to spear them at low tide."
Catch of Herring on Beach at Gastineau Channel, Alaska.
Courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries.
"Are there walruses here, too?"