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of the younger bulls to roar like the old ones are quite comical -

A number of younger bulls were climbing about on the lower end of the rookery without much disturbance by the big bulls. 

At Ketaire the desolate appearance on account of the [[insertion]] ^ departure [[/insertion]][[strikethrough]] absence [[/strikethrough]] of cows is very striking. The pups are crawling about everywhere.  Most of the families are reduced to small proportions. Nevertheless some of the small ones have more than when I last saw them.

Saw no dead pups, 

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placenta pups, or births.
As at Lukannan the pups are back under the bluffs & a few cows are back to the hindermost bulls.

Ketaire July 23, 1895

At the Cairn North of Sta. 14, everything has changed since yesterday. The two families below the cairn ([[underline]] not [[/underline]] nos. 1 & 2) are broken up entirely & the pups which were lying under the bluff are spread out in a long line. Thus: 
[[image - sketch of cairn and pups]] Jan. no. 2 is broken up &

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Dashes often look like they could be hastily written periods, but I've use dashes as they appear to be. Sometimes True seems to "cross" his t's away from the vertical part of the letter so his T's look like L's with a dash over the word.