PPT Slide
“Gavrila Sarietschev, in the details of his report made in December 1805,
incidentally states, speaking of the walrus, that while they had abandoned
the Pribylov islands by then, yet, formerly they were there in such numbers
that 28,000 pounds of their teeth (tusks) were obtained in a single year; as the
average weight of well assorted walrus ivory is about 8 pounds to the head, of
each animal, the memorandum of the agent shows that between 3,500 and 4,000