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the loss still greater. I tliiuk the latter statement more nearly correct. 

 (M. C. Erskine.) 



Of seals killed, about four out of five are saved. (F. F. Feeny.) 



An experienced hunter like myself will get two out of three that he 

 kills, but an ordinary hunter would not get more than one out of every 

 three or four that he kills. (Thomas Gibson.) 



I lose about 50 x^er cent when I use the shotgun, and more are lost 

 when rifle is used. I always shoot them in the head when possible, but 

 if not possible, I shoot them in any part of the body that is exposed. 

 (Gonastut.) 



About 50 per cent are lost when killed with a shotgun, and a larger 

 per cent w^hen rifle is used. (James Gondowen.) 



The hunters would get, on an average, one out of every four they 

 killed. (James Grymes.) 



On an average, I think the hunters will save about one out of three 

 that they kill, but they wound many more that escape and die after- 

 wards. (James Harrison.) 



Formerly the seals were gentle and the approach of a vessel did not 

 even alarm them, but when firearms came into use it so frightened them 

 that they had to be shot at long range, entailing a loss of not less than 

 three out of every four or five killed. (M. A. Healy.) 



My experience convinces me that a large percentage of the seals now 

 killed by shooting with rifles and shotguns are lost. My estimate would 

 be that two out of every three killed are lost. Formerly the killing was 

 done by spearing, and in later years it was learned that shooting them 

 was a swifter method of killing. At the start the hunters were inex- 

 perienced and a large proportion were lost. (James Kiernan.) 



I use the shotgun for taking seal, and sometimes I lose one or two out 

 of ten that I kill. (James Klonacket.) 



I have made it my business to find out what proportion of skins of 

 seals killed are really brought into the market, and from the informa- 

 tion which I obtained from the sealers, hunters, and those owning the 

 skins I learned that on an average only about one out of six killed was 

 secured, varying with the expertness of the hunter. (George Liebes.) 



The number of seals actually secured to the number killed does 

 not exceed about one in four, or about one is taken for every three 

 destroyed, varying, of course, with the skill and experience of the 

 hunters. (Isaac Liebes.) 



From these conversations I should judge they did not secure more 

 than one half of the seals killed ; and this, I think, is a large estimate 

 of the number secured. (A. P. Loud.) 



I have frequently noticed, in the harbor of Petropaulovsky, that the 

 natives, in killing hair seals, are only able to obtain one animal out of 

 every four or five of those killed, and that they frequently wait about 

 four days for the bodies to be washed ashore. (John Malowansky.) 



None I lost when I used spear. About 20 per cent are lost when 

 killed with shotgun. (ISTashtau.) 



An experienced A No. 1 seal hunter, in shooting sleeping seals with 

 a shotgun, will get a large proportion of what he kills, and will get one 



