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it before them : and when she saw that 
(ii(i not eat, she laid her paws first on 
*^^6 and then on the other, and endeavoured 
raise them up, moaning most pitifully ail 
while. When she found that she could 
stir them, she went off, and, having got to 
distance, looked back and again moaned ; 
this not availing her to entice them away, 
returned, and smelling round them, began 
lick their wounds. She went off a second 
I'^e, and, having crawled a few paces as before, 
'^'^ked again behind her, and for some time 
®'lood moaning. Still, her cubs not rising to 
'^fiow her, she returned to them again, and 
signs of inexpressible fondness went round 
and then round the other, pawing them 
^*^d moaning. At last, finding that they were 
^‘^less, she raised herhead toward the ship, 
'ottering a growl of despair, which W'as returned 
'^ith 
h, 
avolley of musket-balls. She fell betw’een 
cubs, and died licking their wounds. 
