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I paid special attention to the dead pups. I saw only a very few of these - perhaps half a dozen in all & these up high - Saw one copulation - Seals all sleeping a great deal this morning. Few pups down at the water - Saw a large bachelor sleeping on the top of a big rock wake up and void a large amount of urine & [[underlined]] rather watery yellow excrement [[/underlined]] - Aug 5. 1895 Kelaire - Took rookery soils Counted one family of 9 cows & 15 pups - One family of 9 cows & 25 pups [[end page]] [[start page]] Saw pups swimming in water free of the rocks - Saw a bachelor mount a pup - One group of about 10 cows without a bull, but two bachelors wandering about among them At Sta 14 counted 11 cows to 150 pups. The families here are entirely broken up. Fam. no 1 has only 1 cow. Fam. no. 2 seems to have united with the neck family. There are about 15 cows around on the edge of the great rock. A young bull located himself on the south side of the rock - Saw excrement on the [[strikethrough]] rock [[/strikethrough]] neck.