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The torn cow looks iji such a bad condition that it seems best to kill her and end 

 the misery. I will bring a native over in the morning to shoot her and try to get 

 her out. 



Mr. Adams reports that while he was watching on Lukanin this morning the mules 

 crossed the foot of the hauling ground, frightening the bachelors through the end of 

 the rookery into the water. After this the mules will be herded. They have a 

 tendency to approach the edge of the rookery to crop the grass which is springing up 

 in the recently abandoned grounds. This grass is much greener and fresher than 

 that found elsewhere. 



JUNE 28. 



I went with Jacob Kochuten to Lukanin to try to get the lacerated cow. Colonel 

 Murray and Mr. Adams accompanied us. She was found dead and in charge of a 

 different bull at some distance back from her position of last night. She had literally 

 been torn to shreds in the night. She was secured without much difficulty and 

 skinned. The skin of the right side was torn completely off, and over the back where 

 the skin was not broken it was still loosened from the blubber. There were three great 

 gashes in the left side and the rump was badly torn. She was bitten in the throat, 

 doubtless the immediate cause of death. 



She contained a full-time fetus. This weighed llj pounds. The skin of the cow 

 was taken for purposes of illustration. A photograph of it was also made. A more 

 striking example of unfeeling brutality could hardly be imagined than this case shows. 

 This is the worse case yet seen, but the harems are full of cows badly torn and cut 

 from the rough seizure of the bulls. The condition of this cow recalls that of the bull 

 found dead at Zapadni. He had evidently been torn to pieces by his companions. 



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In the afternoon I went in company with Mr. Morton and Mr.Redpath to Kortheast 

 Point. The first drive of the season will be made here to-morrow if the weather is 

 favorable. The bright sunshine of the past week still continues. 



The seals were found not to be very numerous on the rookeries, and from the 

 weather indications it is decided not to drive to-morrow. In the evening I visited the 

 sea- lion rookery on Sea Lion Neck. It is not possible to approach it closely. The 

 roar which its inhabitants keep up is something wonderful. It is greater than that of 

 a whole rookery, of fur seals, though there can not be over 300 or 400 animals, all told. 



JUNE 29. 



SEA LiIONS. 



I went again in the forenoon to visit the sea-lion rookery, crawling up close to it. 

 V/ith a glass it was possible to get a good view. 



The animals were mostly sleeping and the roar of the previous evening had 

 subsided. The bachelors are evidently mixed up with cows and pups, or at least lie 

 in close proximity to them. There does not seem the same distinct division into 

 harems, though the bulls are so distributed as to indicate that each one controls a 

 certain number of cows. In the largest pod of cows are 5 bulls. Three cows are 



