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I saw a youngish upper bull sieze a pup out of an upper pod in his teeth and carry it up the slope. He dropped it several times, but picked it up again. The pup presently bit at the bull, & when the latter was not giving attention ran down the hill again - Saw another pup near this same bull but under a rock. A third pup walked up the hillside.
Saw a bull put his fore flipper down the absolutely vertical side of a large boulder & jump down - Another bull was standing almost upright, [[strikethrough]] wl [[/strikethrough]] with his 

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flipper over the edge of a rock.  They assume numbers of peculiar attitudes. When sitting they commonly turn the [[strikethrough]] ier [[/strikethrough]] hind part of their body down on the right or left hind flipper, thus
[[image - pencil sketch of seal]].
The seals were playing in the highest surf among the rocks and sustained no injury, though it seemed at times as if they must be dashed to pieces -
Saw a good deal of what appeared to be playing of male & female together in the water, but could not detect any copulation -
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