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We sailed from Yictoria, British Columbia, and bore due north to 

 Bering Sea. When we arrived there we had some 75 to 80 seals, the 

 greater part of which were females, some of which had pups in them. 

 (James Kennedy.) 



Most of the seals taken by me were females with pup; have taken a 

 few male seals from 1 to 4 years old. A very few yearlings have been 

 killed by me, mostly females. (Mike Kethusduck.) 



Those taken in Bering Sea were nearly all mother seals, in milk, that 

 had left their young and were in search of food. (James Kiernan.) 



Most all seals killed by me have been cows. * * * Have not 

 killed a bull seal for three years. I have taken a few yearlings, mostly 

 females. (John Kowineet.) 



All the seals which I have seen killed were females, and the majority 

 of these were pregnant cows. (Olaf Kvam.) 



Most all seals that I have taken were cows with pup. A few male 

 seals have been taken by me from 1 to 2 years old. (George Lacheek.) 



A good many have pups in them, and when the boats come aboard 

 loaded with seals, after they got through skinning them they would 

 have a big pile of pups on deck. (James Laflin.) 



We had a good catch, having taken 1,400 skins, more than 1,000 of 

 which we secured on the coast. Of the latter more than 75 per cent 

 were female pelts, and of these about 60 per cent were taken from 

 pregnant cows. (James E. Lennan.) 



I have often cut a seal open and found a live young one inside. 

 (Caleb Lindahl.) 



Of all the seals captured by me about one-half of them, I think, were 

 cows with pups in them, and it is very seldom that I have ever caught 

 a full-grown cow that was barren or did not have a pup in her; nor 

 have I, in my long experience, caught a cow that was in milk, or that 

 had recently given birth to her young. I seldom ever kill an old bull, 

 for there are but very few of them that mingle with the herd along the 

 coast. (James Lighthouse.) 



In the year 1885 600 fur seals were caught during the month of March 

 off the Farallon Islands (California). In subsequent years we have had 

 to go farther north each year in order to secure a good spring catch. 

 My experience has been that fully 90 per cent of all seals taken were 

 females, and of these two-thirds were mothers in milk. (E. W. Little- 

 john.) 



I know that a large proportion of the seals taken were mothers in 

 pup or mothers giving milk, but I paid no particular attention to the 

 percentage. (William H. Long.) 



On my last trip this year, when hunting seals off the cape, I caught 

 10 seals, 5 of which had pups in them; the rest of them were from 1 to 

 2 years old, part male and part female. I think that fully one-half of 

 the seals caught along the coast are full-grown females with pups in 

 them. We sometimes catch a few medium-sized males, the rest being 

 younger ones, both male and female. (Thomas Lowe.) 



Q. What percentage of the cows you have taken were with pup? — 

 A. About 70 per cent, I should say. (Charles Lutjens.) 



Most of the seals taken were females with pup. A few male seals were 



