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The invafion of the ftation of another, gives rife to frefh conflicts ; 
and the third caufe is the interfering in the difputes of others. The 
battles they wage are very tremendous; the wounds they inflict very 
deep, like the cut of a fabre. At the conclufion of an engagement 
they fling themfelves into the fea to wafh off the blood. 
Befides their notes of war, they have feveral others. When they 
lie on fhore, and are diverting themfelves, they low like a Cow. After 
victory they chirp like a Cricket. On a defeat, or after receiving a 
wound, mew like a Cat. 
Common Seals, and Sea Otters, ftand in great awe of thefe ani- 
mals, and fhun their haunts, They again are in equal awe of the 
Leonine Seals, and do not care to begin a quarrel in their fight, 
dreading the intervention of fuch formidable arbitrators ; who like- 
wile poffefs the firft place on the fhore. 
The great and old animals are in no fear of mankind, unlefs they 
are fuddenly furprized by a loud fhout, when they will hurry by 
thoufands into the fea, fwim about, and ftare at the novelty of their 
difturbers. 
When they come out of the water, they fhake themfelves, and 
fmooth their hair with their hind feet: apply their lips to thofe of 
the females, as if they meant to kifs them: lie down and bafk in the 
fun with their hind legs up, which they wag as a Dog does its tail. 
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Nores 
Dreav THE Leos 
NINE SZAL. 
Fear not Mans 
KIND. 
Sometimes they lie on their back, fometimes roll themfelves up in- : 
to a ball, and fall afleep. Their fleep is never fo found but they 
are awoke by the left alarm; for their fenfe of hearing, and alfo 
that of fmelling, is moft exquifite. 
They copulate, more humano, in Fuly, and bring forth in the Fune 
following ; fo they go with young eleven months. The cubs are 
as fportive as puppies ; have mock fights, and tumble one another 
on the ground. The male parent looks on with a fort of compla- 
cency, parts them, licks and kiffes them, and feems to take a greater 
affection to the victor than to the others. 
Z They 
CoruLATION. 
GESTATIONe 
