m BOTTLE-NOSED SEAL. 
as to appear like fins* In the upper jaw there are 
only four front teeth* and in the lower jaw no 
more than two* These animals are found in the 
seas about New Zealand, on the island of Juan 
Fernandez, and the Falkland Islands. 
Their fat is so very considerable, as to lie at 
least a foot deep between the skin and the flesh ; 
and some of the largest afford as much as will fill 
a butt. When the bottle-nosed seals are in mo- 
tion, they appear almost like immense skins filled 
with oil ; the tremulous motion of the blubber 
being plainly discernable beneath the surface. 
They have also so much blood, that, if deeply 
wounded in a dozen places, it will gush out at 
every one, and spout to a considerable distance. 
Lord Anson's sailors, to try the experiment, shot 
-one of them, and obtained from it more than two 
hogsheads of blood. 
They seem to divide their time nearly equally 
between the land and sea ; continuing out during 
the summer, and coming on shore at the commence- 
ment of winter, and residing there all that season. 
When ashore, they feed on the grass and verdure 
which grows on the banks of the fresh-water 
streams ; and when not employed in feeding, they 
sleep in herds, in the most miry places they can 
find. Each herd seems to be under the direction 
of a large male ; which the seamen ludicrously 
stile the bashaw, from his driving off the other 
males from a number of females which he ap- 
propriates to himself. These bashaws, however* 
do not arrive at this envied superiority, with- 
out many bloody and dreadful contests, of which 
their numerous scars generally bear evidence. 
Their battles are very frequent ; and when for the 
females, always extremely furious. Some of Lord 
Anson's party observed, one day, on the island of 
Juan Fernandez, what^they at first took for 
