Then the walrus sought refuge among these rocks
"You ran a very great risk," said I. "The walrus is an inoffensive creature; but when attacked and wounded it often becomes furious, and, turning upon its pursuer, can destroy, with its long tusks, a strongly built whale boat. However, thank God for your safety! I value that above a thousand such creatures. Now, what's to be done with him? He must be quite fourteen feet long, although not full grown."
"I am very glad you followed me, father," said Fritz; "but our united strength will not remove this prodigious weight from among these rocks; only do let me carry away the head, with these grand, snow-white tusks! I should so like to fasten it on the prow of the cajack, and name it the Sea-horse."
"We must certainly carry away the beautiful ivory tusks," said I; "but make haste; the air feels so excessively close and sultry, I think a storm is brewing."
"But the head! the head! we must have the whole head," cried Jack; "just think how splendid it will look on the cajack!"
"And how splendid it will smell, too, when it begins to putrefy," added Ernest; "what a treat for the steersman!"