Either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks.
1Thus we were obliged to use sea elephant oil in slush lamps.
2The sea elephant is his big brother in size and ferocity.
3The last variety of hair seal, the sea elephant, varies considerably from the preceding.
4She knew at once what it was, a sea elephant.
5Hamilton killed a sea elephant on the 22nd.
6A gang of sealers was landed with a view to obtaining sea elephant and penguin oil.
7There he murdered a little girl sea elephant after a short, sharp chase over the rocks.
8The sea elephant season was now in progress, and many rookeries were well formed by the middle of the month.
9Breakfast consisted generally of fish, which we caught, or sea elephant in some form, whilst we had tinned fish for lunch.
10I killed the loathsome bird with the rib-bone of a sea elephant, and Hamilton made a fine specimen of it later on.
11Hamilton and Blake were busy at Lusitania Bay during the first two weeks of October securing sea elephant specimens and collecting eggs.
12Many sea elephant rookeries were now well-formed as the cows began to arrive about the 11th and were soon landing in large numbers.
13Hamilton examined the contents of the stomach of the sea elephant and found gravel, stones, cuttlefish, beaks and "worms" in abundance.
14A sea elephant was then killed, and the blubber, heart and tongue taken; the first-named for use as fuel and the others for food.
15We were now eating sea elephant meat three times a day (all the penguins having migrated) and our appetites were very keen.
16The fare consisted of sea elephant's tongue "straight," after which a bottle of claret was cracked and we drank heartily to his future prosperity.
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