BRITISH MAMMALS 



Unless successfully stalked and killed instantaneously while taking his 

 siesta near the water's edge, he is seldom secured. As a rule it is 

 useless to shoot them while on the surface of the sea, as they sink 

 almost immediately, and when this happens in deep water they are lost. 



A successful method of capturing this seal, which now seems to be 

 seldom practised, was to fix a strong net under water at the entrance of 

 the caverns frequented by the animals, when they were often caught in 

 the toils as they tried to escape seawards. 



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