230 THE OCEAN. 
Among themselves, however, the males are accus- 
tomed to fight at certain periods with great fero- 
city. “Their mode of battle is very singular. The 
two rival giant knights waddle heavily along; they 
meet and join snout to snout; they then raise the 
Everaant SEALs, FIGHTING. 
fore part of the body as far as the fore paws, and 
open their immense mouths; their eyes are inflamed 
with rage, and they dash against each other with the 
greatest violence in their power: now they tumble 
one over the other; teeth crash with teeth, and jaws 
with jaws; they wound each other deeply, some- 
times knocking out each other's eyes, and more fre- 
quently their tusks; the blood flows abundantly; 
but these raging foes, without ever seeming to ob- 
serve it, prosecute the combat till their strength is 
