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combs near the door. As the wolves entered he made a 

 quick move, seized the basket of combs, and before the 

 wolves had time to lay hands on him, he sallied forth out of 

 the door past them and into the woods nearby and then down 

 the beach. The whole pack of wolves then followed him in 

 hot pursuit. Time and again they nearly overtook him. But 

 as they were just in the act of seizing him, he would take a 

 comb out of the basket and drop it down on the beach in 

 front of them, thus forming a point of land projecting from 

 the mainland across the beach into the surging surf with 

 some of the isolated teeth jotting up above the waves as 

 islets. The wolves, of course, were compelled to climb over 

 the promontories thus formed. Many of them they climbed 

 over; but finally they gave up the chase. But Kwatte kept 

 running till he had stood up all his combs on the beach." 



After we had eaten our breakfast, we started to the Jag- 

 ged Island group. Here we landed and climbed up the jag- 

 ged rocks to the summit of the highest island. There we 

 found many birds of the Cormorant family, also some Murrs. 

 The mother cormorants flew away at our approach ; but the 

 murrs stood their ground and tried to protect their young 

 till we even picked up one of them. But the young cormo- 

 rants were a pitiable sight. With wings fluttering and 

 mouths open, they panted, expecting their necks to be wrung. 



As we were looking at the birds, our guide called our at- 

 tention to the fact that a herd of sea lion were basking in 

 the sun on the farther end of the island we were on. So we 

 hastened to see them. We crawled over the rocks so as to 

 make the least possible noise. I finally got within twelve 

 feet of a large male. He was sitting on his lower extrem- 

 ities like the fabled mermaid, while he was moving his head 

 from side to side as he bellowed continuously. Near him 

 was a female scratching her head with one of her "flippers." 

 Other males were roaring and shaking their shaggy heads ; 

 cubs were playing, and females were basking in the sun. 

 Some one in our crowd "hallooed" and a stampede of lions 

 followed. They rolled, tumbled, slid into the water and were 

 swallowed up by the waves ; and nothing was left us but the 

 bare rocks and the frightened birds. 



