348 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBTLOF ISLANDS. 



himself, liaviiiji' apparently ohscivcd tlie disappearance of E. D is indifferent and 

 half asleej) <l()\vii toward I'', witii wiioin he has a wordy discussion. 1) has S cows, 

 and they squabble a good deaJ. A's green-necked cow is down in D. ' The water 

 bull remains foi- a time in 1"], where there are 3 cows. D is near him and attemjjts to 

 drive him out, but both seem wry sleepy. Twenty-eight cows are with (J, who is 

 pretty active. X is beliiml him with none. Y is well back, with 1 cow. Another 

 bull well behind V lias 1 cow. Y is very fierce. F is active and has cows. B is 

 gone. Two weeks ago Z would liave been skinned alive if lie ilared enter the harems 

 as he does. lie tries again to go up to (J, who uses strong language. A is jiretty lean. 

 O makes a heavy lunge into a pod of pups and stands on the tiijiper of one, which pulls 

 and pulls and can not get away until tlie bull moves. 



REEF. 



Six little cows in :i li;iicni at tlie rear of Reef lookery stampede. In a short 

 wliili' they come back In I Ik^ bull in a Ixxly. A stray ]iiip is seen among the bachelors 

 in the runway near l)y. lie is very tierce. I carry him l)aclc toward the harein. He 

 tries to Ibllow me away. When tomilied lie liites savagely. Tliero is a single old cow 

 in a harem with a young bull on the hauling ground. Perhaps the lost jiiip is hers. 



The wedge shaped patch of seals is now far beyond Townsend's crosses, within 

 !.'")(> feet of tlie limit sliown by Miicoun's photograjili of 1S!»2. There has been a great 

 spreading backward on the rookery within a U'w days. Many bulls which at first 

 were idle now have harems. These harems are evidently formed from late (ioming 

 cows, mostly young ones. 



A bull near the hauling ground has a single cow. In these outer harems, wliicli 

 are large, there are few [uips, but some of the cows seem old. Perhai)s the pups are 

 podded farther back. Still there are many idle bulls, and tliey are fierce. 



The household life in the great [)atches is different from what it is under the cliffs. 

 Very few wet (M)ws are here, and not nearly so many silvery ones. It will be some 

 time yet before these pups learn to swim, they are so far from the sea. 



The ])atcli north of the dry pond is now about even with the (u-oss. There are 

 hundreds of |>iii>s nround the stone on which the cross is painted. There is no sign 

 of virgins here. There are as many pups as cows, if not more. The bulls are very 

 (piarrelsome. The cows seem wilder here, and there are more single harems along the 

 edge of the bachelors with whom the cows are more mixed up. When the baclu^lors 

 stampede, however, the cows always fall behind under the influence of the bull. 



Evidently the cows in the rookeries most visited — (rorbatch, Lukaiiin, and 

 Kitovi — are less wild than the others. Those along the west side of the parade 

 gnuind are very wild, because not near the drive and almost never visited. 



Three starved i)ups lie on the hauling ground. A stray pup is among the 

 liachelors. The bachelors tend to hug the edge of the rookery, much to the 

 annoyance of tlie oliserver. It takes an Aleut or an old bull to keep them off. 



There is a good dciil of fighting going on. There are some splendid o-year-olds 

 here. There is a big dead bull lying on the ground occupied by the itlle bulls. He 

 has been long dead. 



' Slie was i)ii'seiit on the I'.ltli ; ;ilweiit <>ii tlio 2()tli ; iircHciit. mi tlic 24tli ami again (in t,Iie 27th. 



