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July 15 1895
Started from the village at 2: A.M. to see a drive from the reef rookerys.
Seals seemed to stand the drive very well, few seemed tired.
A number were seen by Mr. Brown with shot wounds.
I saw one which had the right hind flipper entirely cut off, the [[strikethrough]] wa [[/strikethrough]] wound seemed partly healed, it did not affect his travelling, he kept up with the rest when turned away on account of undersize.
Thirty or forty of those turned away, when they enter [[partially erased]] ed [[/partially erased]] the water, swim around quietly, and play.
The ground over which the drive was made