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seal within sight has been killed how is it then that 10 000 to 30 000 killables have been obtained the next year, besides the additions needed on the rookeries for [[strikethrough]] supplying [[/strikethrough]] [[?]] the yearly loss of bull?
And if [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] all were not killed, where were they in the mean time? To these questions I had frankly to confess that I did not know, but that I think it is a fair theory to assume that a certain percentage of bachelor seals always stay in the water and that only [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] part of them haul out near the 
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