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iiiLT on iill sides, that tlifV ctuiM (In l-'rniii .liiiic ;> to " things went on in 



nothing towanl l(»nnin,u haivnis. alumt the sanic wav. the herds inereas- 



The next ninniinir (.'line 1) (ini- chl \u\i in tlie morning' and deereasin<f in 



]tati-iai-eh had a harem of twenty-three the ariernmin. Ilenee I deeich-d that 



eows, and one of the other l)ulls Innl the al'teMioon an<l nJLdit were the hunt- 



li\e. Six or eiirht more hulls arrived 

 (hiring' the day, and hy niirht there 

 were two small harems hesides the first 

 lari:*' t'Hc. Our old frienil, whom I 

 iluhlu'd Hriiiham Youni:. appeared sat- 

 isfied with the numher of his wivos and 

 remained (piiet all day, exeept when an- 

 other Inill would 

 (.ome too eloso. 

 Then he would 

 make a fliTce rush 

 to do hattle. hut 

 the intruder never 

 aeeepted the thal- 

 lentre. When a 

 cow attempted to 

 lan<l. the other 

 two bulls made 

 sueh a rush that 

 they succeeded in 

 drivinjr her away 

 more often than 

 "rounding lier up"" 

 in their liarems. 

 The other hulls 

 kept to them- 

 selves, occasionally 

 fighting and occa- 

 ■ionally retreating 



nor. I ii(' liiiclielors 

 si.-tent in landing 

 seemed to ha\(' lost 

 a lillle hand on tin 



While tlie "pups" are young, the "cows" do 

 not always desert on approach. They may prove 

 somewhat aggressive instead 



ing and feeding times. Other harems 

 were stai'tetl, and souk- <d' them lost, or 

 fell, to the might of s(»me stronger war- 

 that had heell per- 

 on the njokery 

 heart, and formed 

 other rocky islet, 

 from which point 

 they answered the 

 roars of the old 

 hulls in a li'ss cer- 

 tain key. 



liy the middle 

 id' the month the 

 cows nuinhered 

 aliont one hundred 

 and fifty and were 

 in charge of six- 

 teen or eigiitcen 

 old hulls. Nearly 

 a hundred pups 

 had heen born. 

 The harems were 

 now not at all sep- 

 arated, being in 

 one large herd in 

 which here and 

 there a bull could 

 i»e distin>aiished. 



before the rushes of some of the three Ap])arently each hull luul marked out 

 with harems, but not yet attempting to for him.self a certain arliitrary area 

 form harems for themselves. over which he was lord and master by 



On June 2. the herd had incrca.«ed to right of might, and he never left his 

 fifty, but by night had decreased to station except to offer battle to the lord 



of somi' ailjacent realm. 



Soon even this indication of harems 



about what it was the day before. The 

 next morning I counted eighty, but by 

 night there were not more than thirty. 

 'I'herc were still only three harems di- 

 vided among our three old friends, 

 who .s<'emed to have an understanding, 

 and no longer trespassed on one an- 

 other's territory. Three times on twtt 

 successive days the entire band stam- 



was lost, for the bulls did not appear to 

 confine themselves to any one area. No 

 bachelors were allowed to land on tlie 

 rookery, however. By the twentieth of 

 the month virtually all of the pups had 

 lieeii horn, about one hundred and fifty 

 fat. sleek, slecjiy little chaps. They 



peded into the water for some unknown were wholly without fear, and one could 

 reason, but st/on returiKMl to its original handle them and walk about among 

 station. them if he were a little careful to avoid 



