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I counted 70 dead pups at the north end of the rookery & saw about 25 more a little to the south, - about 100 in all, 
This is perhaps no more than should be present without reference to the killing of cows at sea, considering the great mass of cows located here earlier in the season. The living pups seem fat and strong - I did not see any dead ones on the hill-side part of the rookery -  
I watched seals swim (from Tolstoi cliffs) & saw that the used there fore flippers as a bird uses its wing, maker very vigorous backward strokes

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with them.
On the Lagoon rookery the bachelors has started a path through the grass down to the water obliquely with the west limit of the hauling-ground. There are several hundred bachelors in this rookery, but hard to count. 
The harems have come over the cress of the reef especially east end, & quantity of pups are swimming in the lagoon at that end of the rookery - Tried to approach them in a boat but could not get near enough to touch them-