106 THE PUPS. 



As a rule the pups are born soon after the cows reach the shore, 

 though it occasionally happens that a cow will 



i. A. Noyes, p. Si. be two or three days on the rookery before bring- 

 ing - forth her young. 



I think the pups are all born by July 22. 



And I believe they bring forth their young al- 

 J. C. Redpaih, p. 148. most immediately after reaching their places on 

 the rookeries. 



Tlwmas F. Ryan, p. 174. The cow gives birth to her pup soon after ar- 

 riving on the breeding rookeries. 



Daniel Webster, p. 180. The young seals are born on the breeding rook- 

 eries in June and July. 



INABILITY TO SWIM. 



Page 99 of The Case. 



The pups are born between the middle of June and the middle of 



July, and can not swim until they are 6 or 7 weeks 



K. Artomanoff, p. ioo. ld; and if born in the water they would, die. I 



have seen the surf wash some of the young pups, 



into the sea, and they drowned in a very short time. 



When the pups are born they can not swim and the mothers take 



them to the water's edge, where one can seethou- 



William Br ennan, p. 359. sands paddling and struggling in the surf. The 



noise made by the mothers crying for their pups, 



and the bleating of the pups in answer, make a constant roar. 



The pup during the first months of its life is not amphibious. It 



does not even use its flippers as the maturer 



J. Stanley Drown, p. 16. s .,.,i s # * * 



The pups are afraid of the water; they have to learn to swim by re- 

 peated effort, and even when able to maintain themselves in the quiet 

 waters will rush in frantic and ludicrous haste away from an approach- 

 ing wave. I have taken pups two or three weeks old and carried them 

 out into still water, and they awkwardly but in tenor rapidly floun- 

 dered toward the shore, although they could have escaped me by going 

 in the other direction, in three trials, paddling in all about GO feet, 

 the pups became so exhausted that they would have been drowned had 

 I not rescued them. If the pups when collected in groups or pods near 

 the shore were to be overtaken by even a moderate surf they would be 

 drowned, and such accidents to them do occur on the island before they 

 have entirely mastered the art of swimming. 



The pups are born on the rookeries and are unable to swim till six or 

 _ _ , eight weeks of age. If one gets washed oft' the 



Jas. It. Bnanx/tun, >>. ■> i -• .-, ' , .■ „ ■< •' i i a „.,,_ 



(Anta.vp.no. \ rocks before that tune it is drowned. A pup 



born in the water or on the kelp would certainly 



595. {Antarctic) 

 perish. 



A pup is at least a month old before it learns 

 &.N.Buynitshj,p.21. to swim. Before that it not only can not swim, 

 but is afraid of the water. 



