Note 14 — Chapter XLVIII · KAMCHATKA.
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Whalers have now to go much further north for their prey; the sea-otter, with its precious skin, and the sea-lion are rarely seen on the strand and rocks of Behring’s isle, and the sea-cow is completely exterminated. The sea-bear, as Réclus calls it, but which I suspect is that we know as the seal, was threatened also with extermination, until the Americans purchased the monopoly of taking them on Russian territory.