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landing, if tbey have any rule or preference, seek the biggest crowd. It is, however, 

 true that a cow in landing has a very definite idea of the place at which she is to come 

 out of the water. She may land on the rocks and escape to sea because of the 

 awakening of a bull, but when she returns she will land in the same identical cove, in 

 the end, perhaps, to be captured by the very bull from whom she has fled. 



There are 56 cows on Ardiguen, where were only 3 cows on the 20th. The number 

 of bulls is the same, 30 ; but there are 4 young bulls hanging around the rear of the 3 

 bulls above the mouth of the slide. 



Five killers were swimming about between Eeef Point and Sivutch Eook, making 

 the water boil. They are probably feeding on seals. 



Sivutch Rock, viewed with a glass, has on it a large number of bachelors. There 

 is one very large harem and many small ones in the little bight where the landing is 

 usually made. 



A great pod of bachelors, chiefly the large ones, are lying in the bed of the pond 

 on the Eeef, which has evidently now been accepted as a hauling ground. There are 

 a few, however, up in the regular place. A large number of overgrown bachelors are 

 out on Zoltoi. When another drive is made from the Eeef these fellows will all come 

 up again. 



LUKANIN. 



I went to Lukanin in the evening with Mr. Adams. A cow alone with a bull is 

 terribly torn. The wounds are gaping and bloody. Her bull is covered with blood. 

 On her side is a piece of skin 6 inches square torn at three sides and trailing on the 

 ground. It is difficult to see how this cow can live. She was evidently stolen from a 

 large harem in front of her present position. There are very few cows in these small 

 harems that do not show wounds of some kind, many quite serious. A cow roughly 

 handled by her bull this morning limps on the front flipper by which she was caught. 

 Another cow has a bad cut on the hip and drags her hind flipper. It is likely that 

 many of these cows will bring forth stillborn pups. 



The cow already noted as stolen on the morning of the 24th has not yet got her 

 pup. It calls to her and she answers, but it can not extricate itself from the rocks. 

 A sleeping pup awakens at the call of a cow in a harem at a distance of about 50 feet. 

 This is a harem of 3 cows, 2 of which are known to have been stolen. The pup makes 

 a straight line for the mother's voice, and there is a happy reunion. This pup has 

 been absent from its mother for the better part of two days. 



The question naturally arises. What if this mother had been stolen immediately 

 after the birth of her pup, or even while it was being born? The pup would simply 

 never reach her, and would die of starvation. Beside the cow stolen yesterday was 

 a cow in the act of delivery. She might have been the victim of theft, and the result 

 would have been fatal to the pup, as it could not have walked to her, and it would 

 have been absolutely impossible for her to return. This must be recognized as one 

 of the sources of early starvation among pups. 



An instance of copulation was witnessed in a harem immediately under the cliff. 

 The harem has now 19 cows, so that it is not possible to be definite as to the exact 

 history of the cow in question. The harem, however, was formed on the 18th with 

 1 cow. She was first seen at 9 a. m. Two other cows were added to the harem at 

 10.30 of the 20th, and a fourth at about the same hour of the following day. Beyond 



