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not with any great success, by means of a peculiar sort of 
harpoon, called by the hunters ^‘skottel.” Now they are caught 
THE BEARDED SEAL. 
Swedish, Storsal. (PJwca barhata, Fabr.) 
a HE ROUaH SEAL. 
Swedish, Snadd. (Plwca hispida, Erxl.) 
with nets of extraordinary size and strength, which are laid out 
from the shore at places which the white whales are wont to 
frequent. In this way there were taken in the year 1871, when 
