were on several islands, Oumauk was amazed, as many a grown man has been by the numbers of the seals and also with their fearlessness.
Hundreds and even thousands of them were disporting themselves in the sunlight. Some were lying asleep while others were flopping about on their flippers, much like boys playing leap frog.
Oumauk was wild with delight when his father showed him a seal pup. It was snow white to match the snow and hide it from its enemies, and about a foot long.[1] It would have weighed about seven pounds. It was not shaped like much of anything in particular, but was a soft slippery mass of fat, covered with a wonderfully soft fur. When Eiseeyou took it up and placed it in little Oumauk's arms, it bleated like a small lamb and squirmed about to get away. The bleating of the mothers also sounded much like the lowing of young heifers.
Eiseeyou pointed out several sly foxes
- ↑ Note: In the northern hemisphere the seal pup is white. This is to screen him from such enemies as the bear, the wolf, and the fox. In the southern hemisphere where these animals do not exist, he is the same color as the adult seal.
