The beast having no legs, and being able only to make progress with his fins, had not advanced so far as we expected.  Our friend, having in the meantime drawn the small shot from his gun, and put a ball instead, fired at the head of the beast.  The ball entered and stopped his further progress, and there he lay, helplessly floundering about, and roaring more lustily than ever.  This gave Jerry and me time to recover ourselves, and to put bullets into our guns, with which we soon put an end to the sufferings of the poor beast.  He was, we found, a species of seal, about eight feet long, of a yellowish-brown colour, and with a large mane, covering his neck and shoulders.  He looked as if he would prove an ugly customer in the water; but as he had only flappers for front legs, with very small nails on them, and only a tail instead of hind-legs, a person on shore could very easily keep out of his way, and Jerry and I felt rather foolish at the fright he had put us into.  We had achieved our victory before Mr Brand and Mr Burkett found their way up to us.  As he lay not far from the boat, we settled to take his skin on our return.  Going on, we reached a lake of some size, from which vast numbers of teal got up.  Jerry and I shot several, which made us very proud; and the rest of the party tagged thirty or more between them, so that they were pretty well loaded.  Before long, we again managed to get separated from the rest, but we had grown so satisfied with our prowess that we were indifferent to consequences.  We felt that we were not likely to starve even if we lost our way.  I was just going to fire at a teal, when Jerry pulled my arm, and pointing to an opening in the distance among the clumps of grass, I saw the head of a huge bull not fifty yards from us, and, as it seemed, fast asleep.  Now was the time to show what we could do, so we withdrew our small shot and loaded with ball.  Like North American Indians on a war-trail, we crawled stealthily towards him.  We halted, and resting our guns on a bank, fired together.