Up Rs STON Ee SF Ack. 
tween Kamt/chatka and America *; but are fcarcely known to land: on 
the 4fatic fhore: nor are they ever taken except in the three Kurilian 
iflands, and from thence in the Bobrowoie More, or Beaver Sea, as 
far as the Krono/ki headland, off the river Kamt/chatka, which com- 
prehends only from 50 to 56 north latitude. It is obfervable that 
they never double the fouthern cape of the peninfula, or are found 
on the weftern fide in the Pen/chinfka fea: but their great refort has 
been obferved to be to Bering’s ilands. They are as regularly mi- 
gratory as birds of pafflage. They firft appear off the three Kurili 
lands and Kamt/chatka in the earlieft fpring. They arrive exceffively 
fat ; and there is not one female which does not come pregnant. Such 
which are then taken are opened, the young taken out and fkinned.. 
They are found in Bering’s ifland only on the weftern fhore, being 
the part oppofite to 4a, where they firft appear on their migration 
from the fouth. They continue on fhore three months, during which 
time the females bring forth. Excepting their employ of fuck- 
ling their young, they pafs their time in total inactivity. The males 
fink into the moft profound indolence, and deep fleep; nor are they 
ever roufed, except by fome great provocation, arifing from an inva- 
fion of their place, or a jealoufy of their females. During the whole 
time they neither eat nor drink. Svel/er diffected numbers, without. 
finding the left appearance of food in their ftomachs. 
They live in families. Every male is furrounded by a feraglio of 
from eight to fifty miftreffes ; thefe he guards with the jealoufy of 
an eaftern monarch. Each family keeps feparate from the others, 
notwithitanding they lie by thoufands on the fhore. Every family, 
with the unmarried and the young, amount to about a hundred: and 
twenty. They alfo fwim in tribes when they take to the fea. 
* They fay that the Sea-Cat, or Siavutcha, is found in thofe iflands; but Sixvutcha 
is the name given by the Kamt/chatkans and Kurilians to the Leonine Seal only.. 
Northern Archipelago, &c. by Von Steblen, Printed for Heydinger,.1774, P» 34+- 
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FASTING. 
Live IN FAMI=- 
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