. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 416 THE SEA LION. There are about twelve miles of sea-coast occupied by Fur Seals on St. Paul's Island, with an average width of fifteen rods. Allowing twenty Seals to a square rod, the number of biveding Seals are computed at the enormous figure of one million one hundred and fifty-two thousand. Deducting one-tenth for males, leaves one million thirty-seven thousand eight hundred. The value of the skins at the trading posts is ten cents per skin, the company finding bins and salt. Previ
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 416 THE SEA LION. There are about twelve miles of sea-coast occupied by Fur Seals on St. Paul's Island, with an average width of fifteen rods. Allowing twenty Seals to a square rod, the number of biveding Seals are computed at the enormous figure of one million one hundred and fifty-two thousand. Deducting one-tenth for males, leaves one million thirty-seven thousand eight hundred. The value of the skins at the trading posts is ten cents per skin, the company finding bins and salt. Previous to 1866 the skins were worth three dollars each. Soon after the territory was transferred to the United States the skins were worth seven dollars each ; and this advance was owing to the fashion for the fur, which then commenced to 3EA '//una jubata. The Sea Lion, of Kamtschatka and the Kurile Islands, is of less gigantic proportions than the sea elephant, measuring about fifteen feet in length, and weighing about sixteen hundred pounds. The color of the male Sea Lion is a reddish-brown, which becomes paler after the animal is advanced in years. Upon the neck and shoulders is a heavy mass of stiff, curly, crisp hair, which bears some resemblance to the mane of the lion, and has earned for the creature the name of Sea Lion. The female is destitute of this mane, and her fur is some- times chestnut and sometimes ochry-brown. It is not exclusively confined to the localities above mentioned, but is sometimes seen off the coast of Northern America, in the month of July. During the autumn the Sea Lions are found in very great numbers upon the shores of Behring's Island, where they assemble for the purpose of rearing their young through the first few weeks of their life. They are polyg- amous, but restrict themselves to three or four females. They are naturally quiet and peaceable animals, permitting the approach of mankind with great indifference, and suffering thems
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