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himself, having apparently observed the disappearance of K. D is indifferent and 

 half asleep down toward F, with whom he has a wordy discussion. 1) has 8 cows, 

 and they squabble a good deal. A's green-necked cow is down in D. 1 The water 

 bull remains for a time in E, where there are 3 cows. D is near him and attempts to 

 drive him out, but both seem very sleepy. Twenty eight cows are with C, who is 

 pretty active. X is behind him with none. Y is well back, with 1 cow. Another 

 bull well behind Y has 1 cow. Y is very fierce. F is active and has 9 cows. E is 

 gone. Two weeks ago Z would have been skinned alive if he dared enter the harems 

 as he does. He tries again to go up to C, who uses strong language. A is pretty lean. 

 C makes a heavy lunge into a pod of pups and stands on the flipper of one, which pulls 

 and pulls and can not get away until the bull moves. 



REEF. 



Six little cows in a harem at the rear of Reef rookery stampede. In a short 

 while they come back to the bull in a body. A stray pup is seen among the bachelors 

 in the runway near by. He is very fierce. I carry him back toward the harem. He 

 tries to follow me away. When touched he bites savagely. There is a single old cow 

 in a harem with a young bull on the hauling ground. Perhaps the lost pup is hers. 



The wedge-shaped patch of seals is now far beyond Townsend's crosses, within 

 150 feet of the limit shown by Macoun's photograph of 1892. There has been a great 

 spreading backward on the rookery within a few days. Many bulls which at first 

 were idle now have harems. These harems are evidently formed from late-coming 

 cows, mostly young ones. 



A bull near the hauling ground has a single cow. In these outer harems, which 

 are large, there are few pups, but some of the cows seem old. Perhaps the pups are 

 podded farther back. Still there are many idle bulls, and they are fierce. 



The household life in the great patches is different from what it is under the cliffs. 

 Very few wet cows are here, and not nearly so many silvery ones. It will be some 

 time yet before these pups learn to swim, they are so far from the sea. 



The patch north of the dry pond is now about even with the cross. There are 

 hundreds of pups around the stone on which the cross is painted. There is no sign 

 of virgins here. There are as many pups as cows, if not more. The bulls are very 

 quarrelsome. The cows seem wilder here, and there are more single harems along the 

 edge of the bachelors with whom the cows are more mixed up. When the bachelors 

 stampede, however, the cows always fall behind under the influence of the bull. 



Evidently the cows in the rookeries most visited Gorbatch, Lukanin, and 

 Kitovi are less wild than the others. Those along the west side of the parade 

 ground are very wild, because not near the drive and almost never visited. 



Three starved pups lie on the hauling ground. A stray pup is among the 

 bachelors. The bachelors tend to hug the edge of the rookery, much to the 

 annoyance of the observer. It takes an Aleut or an old bull to keep them off. 



There is a good deal of fighting going on. There are some splendid 5-year-olds 

 here. There is a big dead bull lying on the ground occupied by the idle bulls. He 

 has been long dead. 



1 She was present oil the 19th; absent on the 20th ; present on the 24th and again on the 27th. 



