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No. 2, seeing bull No. 1 off his guard, leaches out his 
long strong neck, and picks the unhappy but passive creature 
up by the scruff of hers, just as a cat does a kitten, and deposits 
her on his seraglio-ground ; then bulls Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 
so on in the vicinity, seeing this high-handed operation, all assail 
one another, and especially bull No. 2, and have a tremen- 
dous fight perhaps for half a minute or so ; and during this 
commotion the cow is generally moved or moves farther back 
from the water two or three stations more, where, when all gets 
quiet, she usually remains in peace. Her late lord and master, not 
having the exposure to such diverting temptation as had her 
first, gives her such care that she not only is unable to leave 
did she wish, but no other bull can seize upon her. This is only 
one instance of the many different trials and tribulations which 
both parties on the rookery subject themselves to before the 
harems are filled. Far back, fifteen or twenty stations deep 
from the water-line sometimes, but generally not more than, on 
an average, ten or fifteen, the cows crowd in at the close of the 
season for arriving, July 10 to 14, and then they are able 
to go about pretty much as they please, for the bulls have 
become greatly enfeebled by this constant fighting and excite- 
ment during the past two months, and are quite content with 
even only one or two partners. 
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I have found it difficult to ascertain the average number of 
cows to one bull on the rookery, but I think it will be nearly 
correct to assign to each male from twelve to fifteen females 
occupying the stations nearest the water, those back in the rear 
from five to nine. I have counted forty-five cows all under the 
charge of one bull, which had them penned up on a flat table- 
rock near Kestaire Point ; the bull was enabled to do this quite 
easily, as there was but one way to go to or come from this 
seraglio, and on this path the old Turk took his stand and 
guarded it well. At the rear of all these rookeries there is 
always a large number of able-bodied bulls, who wait patiently, 
but in vain, for families, most of them having had to fight as 
desperately for the privilege of being there as any of their more 
fortunately located neighbours, who are nearer the water than 
themselves; but the cows do not like to be in any outside 
position, when they are not in close company lying most quiet 
and content in the largest harems ; and these large families pack 
the surface of the ground so thickly that there is hardly moving 
or turning room until the females cease to come up from the sea ; 
but the inaction on the part of the bulls in the rear during the 
