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hobos de Aceyte *, or wolves of., oil. One has been 
known to yield a but of oil •, and fo full of blood, 
that what has run out of a fmgle animal j has filled 
two hogdieads. The flefli is eatable •, Lord Anfon "s 
people eat it under the denomination of beef, to dif- 
tinguifh it from that of feal, which they called 
lamb. 
The old animals have a tremendous appearance, 
yet are exceffively timid, except at the breeding 
feafon, when they feem to lofe their apprehenfions, 
and are Ids difturbed at the fight of man. At other 
times, they hurry into the water •, or, if awakened 
out of their deep by a loud noife, or by blows, fall 
into vaft confufion, tumble down, and tremble in 
every part, thro 5 fear : but if once they find it im- 
poffible to efcape grow defperate, roar dreadfully, 
and attack their enemy with great fury. The Kamtf- 
ibatkans either kill them in their deep with launces, 
or fhoot them with poifoned arrows. They cut 
the fkin into cords, or make ftioes of it: they 
efteem the blubber and dedi very palatable *, but 
the feet makes a jelly, which the Kamtjchatkam 
think a great delicacy. 
Thefe animals affociate in families like the for¬ 
mer, but not in fuch great numbers : the males fhew 
equal jealoufy about their miftreftes, and have 
bloody combats on their accounts : oftimes there is 
one of fuperior courage to the reft, and procures 
by dint of valour a greater number of females than 
* Ulloas njoy. II. 227. 
f Anfon’s <vcy. 123. 
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