ORAL ARGUMENT OF CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, Q. C. 275 



is "Testimony relatiug to pelagic sealing"; but the affidavits relate 

 to a great many points in regard to pelagic sealing: That is to say, 

 each man will speak on several points in connection with it. 



Then at the beginning of that Appendix to the Counter Case we 

 have got a collection of the evidence on different points of that kind; 

 but I do not think we have it collected there with regard to the food. 

 I have it in a separate analysis of my own here in print with regard to 

 the food; and that I can give to the Tribunal if it would be convenient 

 for them. But they are collected very much from pages 43 onward. In 

 point of fact, all these affidavits of white hunters are to be found from 

 pages 43 to 08. Then come the Indian hunters, which extend from 140 

 to 159 or 100. 



James McRae, at page 48 says : 



Codfish, salmon and squid are the principal food of the seals. 

 E. O. Lavender, page 54, says: 

 Salmon, squid and a small black fish. 



Two of them speak of a fish " like a mackerel." What that maybe, 

 I do not know. 



Otto Buchholz, at page 58 says: 



The food of seals on the coast is mostly salmon. On the Asiatic side mostly squid. 



That is one of the persons I refer to for that statement. 

 Herman K. Smith, at page 61, says the same thing: 



Over there (that is to say, Copper Islands he is speaking of) the seals get only squid 

 and devil fish; largely the latter. 



I suppose there are no salmon on that coast. 

 Andrew Mathison, at page 09 says: 



Seals on the southern coast feed principally on salmon ; up north on salmon, and 

 squid. 



Another man says p. 80 : 



Shrimps and insects. 



John Christian, at page 8G says: 



On the coast I have noticed more salmon food in the stomachs of seals than any- 

 thing else; bat in Behring Sea it is mostly squid. 



Walter Heay, at page 87 says the same thing: 



On the coast the seals eat principally salmon ; in Behring Sea mostly squid. 



Then there are a large number of Indian hunters, who I suppose 

 would be confined to the eastern coast. 



An Indian, Schoultwick, at page 142 of that same Appendix. These 

 Indians speak more particularly of herring, and I account for that in 

 this way: The Indians as a rule know more of the coast sealing. That 

 is to say, they are more accustomed to hunt within shorter distances of 

 the coast, and their knowledge of seals is more confined to the migra- 

 tion of the seals along the coast and the interior waters. Of course 

 many of them are hunters on the schooners; but they have a more inti- 

 mate knowledge probably of the coast sealing. This man was living 

 on the coast of Vancouver Islaiid in Barclay Sound, and he says: 



Tlie seals are always most numerous when the herring are most plentiful, which 

 they follow as far as the head of Barclay Sound, and we kill them there every year 

 if the bait go that far. 



That is to say, if the herrings go in as far, as I understand it, as up 

 to the head of the Sound, 



