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MAMMALIA. 
A Seal hunt differs in its details in nothing from a Morse hunt. 
They are harpooned from boats, or they are pursued on the 
icebergs, and killed with axes and pikes (Fig. 28 ). 
All the inhabitants of the shores of the polar seas pursue Seals, 
and destroy innumerable quantities of them. They find in these 
animals precious resources against the rigour and desolation of 
