13/22 Now if you did not have to get so close to the subject--" "The very thing!" I cried. "What I need is a longer club. And there's that broken oar ready to hand." "It just comes to me," she said, "that Captain Larsen was telling me how the men raided the rookeries. They drive the seals, in small herds, a short distance inland before they kill them." "I don't care to undertake the herding of one of those harems," I objected. "The holluschickie haul out by themselves, and Dr.Jordan says that paths are left between the harems, and that as long as the holluschickie keep strictly to the path they are unmolested by the masters of the harem." "There's one now," I said, pointing to a young bull in the water. |