ORAL ARGUMENT OF SIR RICHARD WEBSTER, Q. C. M. P. 139 



Now wliat do they suggest within the 10 mile zone? You will notice 

 they killed One old male, two young males, three nursing cows and 

 three virgin cows and they calculate the percentage from that. Then 

 take the 1:0 mile zone, one young male eight nursing cows and one vir- 

 gin cow. That again might be a suiHciently large number, but still it 

 is a very untrustworthy guide for the purpose, of percentage. It is 

 remarkable, at any rate that a very large i)ercentage, if you are to rely 

 upon the table at all, of nursing cows are found within the twenty 

 mile zone. 



Now we come to the 30 mile zone. What they find is one young 

 male, and they put down 100 per cent for that. It is ridiculous to cal- 

 culate it from that. Then the 50 mile zone was 1 young male, 1 nurs- 

 ing cow; and they put down the percentage of nursing cows at 50 per 

 cent, because they happened to have shot not as many as they could 

 shoot, but two only. Then the 100 mile zone, 1 young male and 1 nurs- 

 ing cow, and again they put down 50 per cent. 



Then the 150 mile zone, 2 young males, one nursing cow; and the 

 200 mile zone 3 young males, 8 nursing cows, and 3 virgin cows; and 

 from that table you are supposed to be able to form some sort of 

 idea or estimate as to what is the percentage of these animals that are 

 shot. Well, Mr. President, I speak with great deference to the mathe- 

 matical ability and ingenuity of my learned friends. All I can say is 

 that if they can deduce a reliable percentage from such a table as that, 

 the United States has gone very, very far ahead of the Old Country in 

 the matters of mathematics liecause nobody who has had anything to 

 do with statistics in connection with animal life, or anything eise, 

 would think of calculating the percentage from such a number of kill- 

 ings or examination of the animals that were found. 



Now let us come to the table as regards the food. That is at ])age 

 219, within 10 miles from the Islands all three are found without food. 

 These are the nursing females only. 



Lord Hannen. — What are you referring to here? 



Sir Richard Webster. — The table opposite page 219, my Lord. Of 

 course, I shall have to pick out each one for you if I have actually to 

 find them; but perhaps I can give you the substance of the table and 

 then I can test any one that is necessary. Within 10 miles from the 

 Islands they found three nursing females. That you will find, my 

 Lord, by turning back for a moment to page 217. Within 10 miles 

 from the Islands they found three nursing females, all of them without 

 food. Within 20 miles they found eight nursing females, all of them with- 

 out food. If that ijroves anything at all — I do not think it does prove 

 anything at all to be fair, it would prove the eight nursing females could 

 get the food within 20 miles, but there is nothing to show if it was 

 going or coming, and from the point of view of this grand statistical 

 operation, it affords no guide. Between 20 and 30 miles they found no 

 nursing females. At 50 miles they found one nursing female without 

 any food, and if that is any proof at all, it is all the nursing females in 

 that area did not require food, which would be absurd. Then 100 miles 

 off they found one nursing cow without food; 150 miles they found one 

 nursing cow with food, and within 200 miles they found eight nursing 

 cows five with food and three without. 



In all seriousness I ask the Tribunal if they had to draw any conclu- 

 sion from such figures as those would anybody risk the life of a rat from 

 any conclusion that could be drawn from them. Perhaps a rafs life is 

 worth nothing, but take the life of a dog would anybody risk the life 



