CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 



SEALS 



before we were half-way across, our seal, who had only 

 been stunned, the shot having merely grazed her head, 

 came to life, and finding herself in so unwonted a position, 

 commenced an indiscriminate attack on everything in her 

 way; our legs being more so than anything else, we had to 

 throw our feet up on the gunwale of the boat, and dispatch 

 her how we could, as she was tearing away, with immense 

 strength, at the woodwork within her reach, and we ex- 

 pected that she would have made a hole in the bottom of 

 the boat. We managed, however, with some difficulty to 

 stun her again, with the handle of an oar, and got safe to 

 land with our prize, the first of the kind I had ever cap- 

 tured. 



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