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July 27 1895 This afternoon to Ketaire. About 120 bachelors south of the point, a few of the back ones lying on grass. The cows are up to the line of the hindermost bulls all along. Saw only one copulation in 2 hours & that doubtfully successful, because hillside slippery. Tried twice - This was an upper bull - Three other upper bulls at sta. 14 are constantly smelling the cows but no copulation yet. Large numbers of cows must be at sea - Two cows to 50 pups is no unusual sight. Saw a cow [[strikethrough]] bite [[/strikethrough]] who [[end page]] [[start page]] was nursing [[insertion]] ^ her own pup [[/insertion]] bite at another pup that approached her. The upper pups slide down the slippery hills. Fam. no. 1 has a varying number of cows - just now there are 6 - The fam. is near the water. Fam. no. 2 has 22 cows. The next upper has 13 - There are not above 90 cows in this hillside between sta 14 & the cairn - At Lukannon saw two more copulations. In one case the bull mounted the same cow 3 times & did not seem satisfied at last. He seemed reluctant to begin.