SNORTING DEFIANCE, an eighteen-foot bull sea elephant is 

 segregated from a herd by persuasion of an improvised iron 

 wire gate. He is not combative but objects to disturbance of 

 his slumbers. Below, the explorers have dropped a strong net 

 over a large female of the species in which she will soon be 

 completely entangled and buoyed to the Velero III. On board 

 the animals soon become tame and learn to relish their daily 

 ration of fresh fish from the ship's supply. 



