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added to the seal's savage expression. A bullet at two 
yards ended his days. He was about fourteen feet long, 
dark on the back, yellowish-green below, with coal-black 
spots overlapping lower light parts. His canine teeth were 
very large and formidable-looking, but the three-pronged 
molars were much decayed. I should much like to see 
the kind of fish these seals capture. Some of the men 
saw one with a large fish in its mouth above water ; they 
said it was like a conger-eel. It is very remarkable that 
