26 The Seal Its Uses. 



34. In Greenland, where it is very cold, 

 many of the people depend upon the seal for 

 almost everything : its flesh they use for food, 

 of its skin they make their clothing, tents, and 

 boats, and its fat furnishes them with oil for fuel 

 and lamplight. 



35. The seal is found on coasts and islands in 

 many parts of the world, but especially in the 

 cold regions. Around Alaska, Greenland, 

 and Newfoundland thousands are captured 

 every year. 



36. The different species of the seal include 

 the sea-lion, sea-elephant, sea-leopard, sea-bear, 

 and the walrus. The sea-elephant is about 10 

 yards in length. 



37. The seal is amphibious, because it can live in water or 

 on land ; it is a quadruped, because it has four paws or legs ; 

 like the whale, it is carnivorous, because it eats fish and 

 the flesh of animals; it is gregarious, because it lives with 

 others, in herds; it is migratory, because it moves from one 

 part of the ocean to another; and is a mammal, because it 

 suckles its young. 



Seals, when in the water, must come to the surface at 

 least every half hour to breathe ; whales, about every 

 hour. 



Alaska was purchased from Russia by the United States 

 for seven millions of dollars. It is noted for seals and fish. 



SPELL AND DEFINE Seal, paw, limbs, boats, 

 flesh, steer, scull, tent, fuel, coast, island, clothing, 

 paddle, sea-lion, sea-elephant, thousand, million. 



