In addition, they went back to the killing grounds, not too far away was Kotick. No seal has ever followed them there. When they arrived Kotick saw that his friends were being skinned all the way. He hurried back to the islands as fast as he could. He told the Sea Lion, however he did not believe him at first. Finally, he did and told him that they were going to keep on if he didn't find an island where there were good food and the men would not come. Sea Lion told him to go to "the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep" (Kipling 7.78) Sea Vitch. After they finished talking, Sea Vitch told him to talk to Sea Cow. He was confused after a Burgomaster gull yelled and screeched "He's the only thing in the sea uglier than Sea Vitch,...Uglier, and with worse manners! Stareek!" (Kipling 7.79). Sea Cow waited on a white seal to save them, he told him that in order to reach his goal he would have to swim miles and miles to find such a place if it even existed that is. He traveled far and never gave up until he found