File:BULL(1896) p167 KILLING SEALS.jpg

(Original text from the book:) Sighted in the evening one of the Balleny Islands once more, apparently Young's Island; same outline as the land observed a few days previously, distance sixteen to eighteen miles. At twelve o'clock at night, the midnight sun is just skimming the horizon, and it is perfectly easy to read in bed. Nearly one-half of the seals captured proved of no value as regards their skins, which were lacerated in apeculiar manner, the scars frequently running parallel, up to twelve inches in length, and about an inch apart, chiefly on the sides and lower portions of the body. Ishall return to this matter in a subsequent chapter, and will therefore here merely state that the scars were rarely,if ever, found on the sea-leopards we killed, as if the size of this animal rather awed the mysterious enemy of his smaller cousins, but they were particularly frequent on the whitish-yellow or light gray seal which goes under the name of the white Antarctic seal, though it is never found of such whiteness that it cannot readily be distinguished on the ice-floes.

Image extracted from page 167 of The Cruise of the ANTARCTIC to the South Polar regions, by BULL, Henrik Johan. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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