1 "There are the seals," she suggested.
2 Some Government must protect all these seals.
3 Our food will not last, but there are the seals.
4 "We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship.
5 The seals were thick, the wind was dying away; everything favoured a big catch.
6 There were seals about us, and I was prepared to sight a sealing-schooner at any time.
7 We had sailed since daylight across a sea barren of seals, and were now running into the herd.
8 They lowered sails, shot seals, and hoisted sails again, and continued on their way as I had always seen them do.
9 Here the seals hauled out, and the old bulls guarded their harems, while the young bulls hauled out by themselves.
10 As we ran off to get our leeward position of the last lee boat, we found the ocean fairly carpeted with sleeping seals.
11 There were no seals behind us, and ahead of us the line of fourteen boats, like a huge broom, swept the herd before it.
12 These, I afterward learned, were the hunters, the men who shot the seals, and a very superior breed to common sailor-folk.
13 There were seals all about us in the water, and the bellowing thousands on the beach compelled us to shout at each other to make ourselves heard.
14 And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge.
15 As we passed the point the whole cove burst upon our view, a half-moon of white sandy beach upon which broke a huge surf, and which was covered with myriads of seals.
16 These men here shoot seals in order to live; for the same reason I sail this schooner; and Mr. Van Weyden, for the present at any rate, earns his salty grub by assisting me.
17 I estimated its circumference at twenty-five miles, its width as varying from two to five miles; while my most conservative calculation placed on its beaches two hundred thousand seals.
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