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1897
(July 26. [[Centrin?]])

The condition for counting the pups being unusually favorable, nearly all being on show, with but few females to disturb, we set about to count them carefully.  The only difficulties were that in some places the pups were lying very close together and that the immeasurable [[moskitoes?]] made the work a veritable torture.

The first count was very unsatisfactory.  My figures
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