June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 112

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; The Muzzle; eskimo*; walrus*
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2114; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3113/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

with the claws of bears, and place their skulls about the graves of the men who killed them. I have seen as many as 18 set about the skeleton of an Eskimo hunter, making an oval enclosure for his bones like shells set around a grave. The strength of the polar bear is in proportion to the massiveness...