Question

1. What made Kotick feel that the
new island was safe?​

Answer 1

Answer:

All these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Sea. Limmershin, the Winter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown on to the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and I took him down into my cabin and warmed and fed him for a couple of days till he was fit to fly back to St. Paul's again. Limmershin is a very quaint little bird, but he knows how to tell the truth.

Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals. They come in the summer months by hundreds and hundreds of thousands out of the cold gray sea. For Novastoshnah Beach has the finest accommodation for seals of any place in all the world.

Sea Catch knew that, and every spring would swim from whatever place he happened to be in--would swim like a torpedo-boat straight for Novastoshnah and spend a month fighting with his companions for a good place on the rocks, as close to the sea as possible. Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur seal with almost a mane on his shoulders, and long, wicked dog teeth. When he heaved himself up on his front flippers

Answer 2

Answer:

Kotick realised that the island he found was safe by the

feel of the water. He knew that no men had ever been there

before and the fishing was good. Also, the island had low

sandy islands half hidden in the rolling fog, and a line of

bars, shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come

within six miles of the beach. Furthermore, between the

islands and the mainland was a stretch of deep water that

ran up to perpendicular cliffs. Kotick knew

that men could not come down the cliffs, and the shoals to

seaward would knock a ship to splinters. Thus, the island

that he found was safe for seals.

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