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damage. It is just as bad when lie is attacked from below, or 

 when the animal suddenly shoots up close at his side, for it is 

 lightninglike in its movements, and lacks neither courage nor 

 strength. If it once gets up on the kaiak and capsizes it, there is 



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little hope of rescue. It will often attack the hunter under water, 

 or throw itself upon the bottom of the kaiak and tear holes in it. 

 In such a predicament it needs very unusual self-mastery to pre- 

 serve the coolness necessary for recovering one's self upon even 



