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rookery was named. In habit he had much in com- 

 mon with his neighbor, the Fur Seal, though never 

 straying far from home even in midwinter. Now 

 only his bones remain, mute witnesses to his ruth- 

 less extirpation by man. 



Vostochni and Morjovi being twelve miles from 

 the village, in the course of our investigations I had 

 occasion to spend two nights in the little shack hard 

 by the latter, the humblest sort of shelter. But on 

 the wall was nailed a decent reproduction of the 

 Trial of Constance de Beverley, and the shelf held 

 Marie 3. single book, the lurid "Wormwood" of Marie 

 CorMiand CorclH. Near Morjovi the Gray Sea Lion — 



the Gray . i i • • i 



Sea Lion Liimetopids — a huge but timorous species, also 

 has a rookery. The males, weighing upward of a 

 ton, have a musical voice of great volume like the 

 deep tones of a mighty pipe-organ, quite different 

 from the guttural roar of the beachmasters. Across 

 the island, beyond Vostochni, lives the true Seal 

 The Hair OX Hair Seal — Phoca pribilojensis — of very dif- 

 ^^^^ ferent nature from any of the others. He makes 

 very little noise, and slips softly into the sea when 

 disturbed. He walks on his toes like a dog or cat, 

 but his limbs are bound so closely to the body that 

 on land he can only crawl. 



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Toward the end of October, the rookeries break- 

 ing up and our work being finished, we left Una- 

 laska on the revenue cutter Richard Rush. At 

 Dutch Harbor there was every sign of rough weather, 

 and appearances grew rapidly worse. To add for 

 a moment to the captain's anxiety, in Unimak Pass 



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