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McGonnet
1948
Hair Seal
4
12 June. About 5:30 P.M. the seal became scarce wouldn't see one for fifteen minutes at a stretch. We then left that area and went up into a branch fjord off Endicott Arm to escape the wind. A turbulent torrent perhaps 100 feet wide poured down into this inlet from a dead glacier a mile or more back up in the deep canyon.
A shallow shelf existed at the end of this inlet due to the gravel mud that was brought down with torrent from the dead glacier where the stream emptied into the inlet we noticed violent splashes along the surface near the shore. These splashes were made by seal that were surfacing with such force that they would hurl themselves half out of water. One of these was shot. The contents of its stomach