The Badminton Magazine 1899-05: Vol 8 Iss 46 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 61
ies, the most astonishing thing about it being that each mother returning to suckle her infant finds the particular hole in the ice whence she emerged among thousands exactly like it. The young are appropriately called ‘whitecoats,’ being fat, downy, white little masses of blubber, with voracious… … baby seal, from the superior quality of the oil, being valued at about $1.50 (6s. sterling), while an adult is worth $3.00 (12s. sterling). Their pursuit is almost the only means of work in winter to afford the population livelihood, and dire is the suffering when the seal harvest fails. The…
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