Sea-Lions, in the Falkland Islands, 1856. 'In some of the smaller seals congregate in great numbers, called rookeries; and, to avoid the danger of attacking them under cover, the sealers set fire to the grass, which, of course, obliges the alarmed inhabitants to scamper helter-skelter down their pathways to the sea, on the road to which they are attacked and slain in great numbers for their oil and skins'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

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