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St. George Id, Alaska
July 21 1895

At 7:30 P.M. started from village with men to make a drive. Arrived at a small bunch of seals (bachelor) at 7:45 at [[strikethrough]] Starry artetel [[/strikethrough]] north rookery; they are hemmed in [[insertion]] ^ in [[/insertion]] is three minutes.

At. 7:10 [[insertion]] ^ PM. [[/insertion]] another bunch was wound up a few hundred yards on, this time about 100 females were set going toward the sea [[strikethrough]] to try [[/strikethrough]] by the men getting too close I watched these females but none took [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] to the water.

About five harems were stampeded and all was confusion, bulls rushing around trying to retain their cows, fighting with every bull