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exercife. The Ruffians were wont to fling the cubs into the water, 
and they always fwam back to fhore. 
The males treat the females with great refpect, and are very fond 
of their careffes. They are polygamous, but content themfelves 
with fewer wives than the former, having only from two to four 
apiece, 
The males have a terrible afpeét, yet they take to flight on the firft 
appearance of a human creature; and if they are difturbed from 
their fleep, feem feized with great horrors, figh deeply in their at- 
tempts to go away, fall into vaft confufion, tumble down, and trem- 
ble in fuch a manner as fcarcely to be able to ufe their limbs. But if 
they are reduced to a ftrait, fo as not poifibly to effect an efcape, 
they grow defperate, turn on their enemy with great fury and noife, 
and even put the mo‘t valiant to flight. 
By ufe they lofe their fear of men. Steller once lived for fix days 
in a hovel amidft their chief quarters, and found them foon recon- 
ciled to the fight of him. They would obferve what he was doing 
with great calmnefs, lie down oppofite to him, and fuffer him to 
feize on their cubs. He had an opportunity of feeing their conflicts 
about their females ; and once faw a duel between two males, which 
lafted three days, and one of them received above a hundred 
wounds. ‘The Urfine Seals never interfered, but got out of the way 
as faft as poffible. They even fuffered the cubs of the former .to 
fport with them without offering them the left injury. 
This fpecies has many of the fame actions with the former, in 
fwimming, walking, lying, and fcratching itfelf. The old bellow 
like Bulls ; the young bleat like Sheep. Steller fays, that from their 
notes he feemed like a ruftic amidft his herds. The males had a 
{trong fmell, but were not near fo fetid as the Urfine fort. 
Their food is fifth, the leffer Seals, Sea Otters, and other marine 
animals. During the months of Fume and Fuly the old males almoft 
entirely abftain frem eating, indulge in indolence and fleep, and be- 
come exceffively emaciated. 
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