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[[underlined]] Rejected pods [[/underlined]] (Those killed not counted)
Too large  Too small  Total rejected
5          45          = 50
4          33          = 37
8          32          = 40
5          32          = 37
6          68          = 74
5          41          = 46
3          46          = 49
9          53          = 62
5          51          = 56
4          31          = 35
2          63          = 65

This page & the preceding relate to a killing at the village for food this morning, July 27 [[superscript]] th [[/superscript]]. The seals were driven from Lukannon sometime this morning & the killing began about 8.30 A.M.  I went 
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back on the line of the drive & found one large & two small exhausted seals near the killing ground.  These afterwards joined the drive again.  They were only two or three hundred yards from the killing ground.
  Mr. Crowley, Capt. Drake, Mr. Townsend, Brown Redpath Judge & myself were present at the killing.  Townsend did not see the first part. Judge came late.  Brown remained [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] a part of the time only.
  I counted 11 pods as above & got 23 1/2% [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] as the proportion [[strikethrough]] lit [[/strikethrough]] killed. This is probably a high estimate, as the later pods contained a very large number of rejected.  
The seals were noticeably