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water for a week. Evidently this pup must have come up Iroui the water and found 

 its mother. 



A big- cow is calling loudly for her pup. She is wet and has evidently come direct 

 through from the sea. No jiup appears and she bites a sleeping cow as though just 

 for meanness. She goes about for a short time railing, then starts off in a straight 

 line for a distant part of the rookery and lies down among a number of sleeping cows. 

 Did she come to this point because she found her pup here last time; and not liiiding 

 it, did she go back to her original harem .' 



I see a little starving pup below me. He is moving about and calling out and 

 nosing about the breasts of sleeping cows. He has tried 3 and been driven off with a 

 growl and snap from the waking cow. He wanders some distance. Comes up to a 

 sleeping cow whose pup is either nursing or asleep with his nose at the nipple. The 

 starveling takes hold and evidently nurses for some seconds. But the cow, as before, 

 wakes and snaps at him with unwonted vigor. Her own ])up has been asleep. 

 Evidently she had been misled by the fact of his having recently been sucking. The 

 starveling gives up and lies down. 



NUESING OF PUPS. 



A wet cow is near by who has just recognized her pup. The little fellow is 

 beginning to nurse. It is now 10.O.5, At 11 o'clock another pup and cow are seen to 

 recognize each other. At 11.10 the pup which began nursing at 10.55 has stopped 

 and is sitting beside its mother. The other little fellow also stops. He calls o\er his 

 sleeping mother's head. She does not oi)en her eyes, but at once moves her body in 

 such a way as to give him a chance at the nipples on the under side. He resumes 

 his dinner. At 11.15 he quits and lies down to sleep by his mother. The other pup 

 has gone to sleep, not resuming his meal. These are probably not representative 

 cases, however, as there are three pups near by which were nursing when these began 

 and are still at it. At 11.20 the pup that began at 11 o'clock is nursing again on the 

 other side. At 11.30 the pup which began at 10.55 has resumed nursing. The other 

 is still at it. At 11.35. when I leave, the latter is sleeping again while the former 

 continues his nursing. These two pujjs have each nursed about half an hour, but 

 they are likely to resume and continue indefinitely. 



A little pup is in a hard way because his mother is lying between a rock and a 

 sleeping cow, so that he has no room. He is standing with fore flippers on her and 

 hind flippers on the rock, calling to her. She has her head up and is scolding the cow 

 beside her as if trying to get her out of the way. They are both too lazy to move and 

 the pup has to go off. 



A pup dripping wet is hunting about among the cows for his mother. Evidently 

 both parties hunt. It must depend upon the individual. If the mother comes in from 

 an absence she may hunt for the pup. If the pup is hungry he will do the hunting. 



AN ALEUT'S VIEWS. 



In the afternoon Xickoli Krukof helped me complete the chute. 2s'ickoli asked 

 what it was for and was told that it was for separating the seals near the hauling 

 ground to save driving. I said to save. He wanted to know what was the nnitter 

 with driving them. He was told that some peoi)le claimed that driving and redriviug 



