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  Plenty of pups playing at the water's edge.
  Townsend reports no more bachelors in the hauling ground than this morning = about 200 -

July 28. 1895 Sunday
Rainy & foggy day -
In the afternoon at 3 o'clock to Kelaire. Counted 150 pups to 37 cows under the cairn north of sta. 14, which shows to what an extent the cows have gone out, whether to feed or not I do not know, but they are gone. A dozen or two seals, presumably cows playing in the surf opposite this point
I see one pup with 
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a very fresh looking placenta attached, - must be just born.
  Fam. no. 2 is entirely broken up and the great flat rock on which it lay is bare. The bull with about 5 cows is lying on the edge.
  The cows remaining [[strikethrough]] have moved [[/strikethrough]] are as high up as the very top of the hillside both north & south of the cairn where I am sitting.
  The cows & pups seek out all the dry spots under the cliffs & cram themselves into them. Strange that such aquatic creatures should so dislike the rain.
  The whole rookery here looks deserted. The pups are getting large &