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their ferocity, the most sagacious, cunning and ex- 

 pert creatures which Hved in the sea, possessing un- 

 paralleled daring and persistence, and would hover 

 around the sea-lion rocks for days, and had been seen 

 repeatedly to come up suddenly from deep water 

 close along-side jutting-out rocks where sea-lions were 

 basking, and snatch them away, although they were 

 five or six feet above the water — this has been con- 

 firmed by a number who claimed to have witnessed 

 it; that whalers have witnessed them not only 

 with the thresher or fox shark, but accompanied 

 by large sword-fish in attacks upon whales. 



Think of what a grand sport and top holding in 

 sports this would be for an ambitious sportsman 

 wishing to exceed all others and achieve the record 

 over all, with the ocean for his field and the whale 

 for his game, with a pack of killers at his heels, 

 and it may be recommended to those who are en- 

 nuied with the tame pastime of hunting wild boars, 

 stags, and mountain lions with dogs, to take a hold- 

 ing on some northern coast station, and give him- 

 self over to the conquest of mighty whales, the largest 

 animals of creation, attended by gladiatorial bull- 

 dogs of the sea. 



The captain of a whaling ship which returned 

 from a winter's whaling in the Behring Sea, a few 

 years ago, gave an account of the capture of a killer 

 by the natives of that locality, which he witnessed. 

 It was at the season when the ice pack was breaking 

 up, when the walruses, sea-lions and seals were being 

 disturbed from their winter quarters on the ice and 

 compelled to seek other quarters, a period when, 

 according to the natives, the killers, long absent, 



