They were both big animals in prime condition, and I felt that there was no more need for anxiety as to the supply of fresh meat for the dogs.

Seal-liver made a welcome change in our own menu.

The two bulls were marked, like many of their kind, with long parallel scars about three inches apart, evidently the work of the killers.

A bull we killed on the following day had four parallel scars, sixteen inches long, on each side of its body; they were fairly deep and one flipper had been nearly torn away.

The creature must have escaped from the jaws of a killer by a very small margin.