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lliat tlicse animals, even when young-, would Youn": seals 



dread the water. 



readily go into the water — that being one of their 

 natural instincts, but, strange to say, such is not 

 the case ; it is only with the greatest difficulty 

 and a wonderful display of patience, that the 

 mother succeeds in getting her young in for the 

 first time. I have known a cow to be three days 

 getting her calves down half a mile and into the 

 water, and, what is most surprising of all, it can 

 not swim when it is in the water." 



