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to have inconvenienced the monster, though a streak of blood was left in his wake as he slowly made off, snorting & blowing the water many feet in the air — hundreds at this time sporting in the water, and all taking the same track, apparently into the gulf[[.]] I made a good shot at a seal who rose in our wake some 350 yards astern — raising the long sight I managed to send a ball into him, but he immediately dived and we lost sight of him.

After passing the Manicougan Manicouagan shore the seals again made their appearance, and again the rifles were called into operation, but they never came within fair range. A few white porpoises also shewed about the ship. On the 7 July we passed the mouth of the Saguenay a fine river about 120 miles from Quebec & rising some 200 miles to the N.N.E. This only ? opens