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loud hurrah of suddenly gained confidence in my 

 Dwn abilities, I jumped on to attack another." 



After killing as many as they could carry oil 

 "hat day the work of skinning and lugging the 

 blubber 'ined hide to the boats began. Here two 

 worked together. As the beasts were duly di- 

 vested of their hides, a hole was cut in the center 

 of each. A hide being now lifted up, one's head 

 was inserted through the opening, the mass of. 

 blubber hanging about him something after the 

 fashion of a Spaniard's poncho. In this guise, 

 with the filthy oil dripping from every pore, he 

 now scrambled over rocks and declivities, down 

 to the boat, in which the load was deposited, 

 while the bearer returned to repeat the operation. 

 It was in this business that Teddy had contracted 

 his aversion to water, taken externally, as a 

 purifier. 



" As an internal remedy," said he, one day, in 

 discussing its merits, " a very little water, mixed 

 with good whisky, is not at all objectionable." 



Of relating his mishaps with sea-lions, Teddy 

 never tired, and, to own the truth, neither did his 

 auditory ever tire of him There might have been 

 more intellectual amusement, but under the cir 

 cumstances, there could have been none provided 

 of a more enlivening nature. 



"When we first entered Antongil Bay, all hands 

 congratulated themselves in advance upon the 

 pleasure of ar occasional ramble ashore, neve* 



