Animals: Parade to Pribilof

Along the coasts of Oregon and Washington last week, captains of U. S. Coast Guard cutters were waiting the arrival of the Pribilof fur seals, whose annual migration was reported on the move. When the seals were sighted, plunging and barking on their way to the Pribilof Islands off Alaska, the Coast Guardsmen would chug out to follow them, to guard them in their curious hegira.

It is the Coast Guard's duty to superintend the seal-hunting of coastal Indian tribes, the Quillayute, the Makah of Neah Bay, Wash., and further north the...

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