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were so exhausted. These did not begin dolphin jumps as the majority did. 
  Townsend went round to [[insertion]] ^ Lukannan to [[/insertion]] see the seals haul up, as he stated it x I do not have much faith in their going around there at once, if at all. 
Capt. Drake is going to Unalaska to look after the sealing fleet. I understood he would go this morning but the surf was high & he did not go. I told him, on his enquiry, that [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] if Prentiss remained on St. George a few days longer it would be no great matter. He will leave a note for [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] some one of the Revenue Marine cutters to bring [[strikethrough]] this off [[/strikethrough]] 
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Prentiss back, if the Albatross does not get back in time.
  A considerable number of bachelors when killed this morning voided a yellow excrement. There was more of it this morning, it seemed to me, but I could not see how it differed in kind from that hitherto observed. Mr. Crowley made the same remark. Mr. Brown remarked that either the bachelors had the power of retaining excrement long, or had just come in fresh or had been out to feed recently -