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ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



As to nursing cows in Bebring Sea: 



Most of the seals taken in Beliring Sea 

 are females. Have taken them 70 miles 

 from the islands, that were fnll of milk. — 

 (United States Case, Appendix, vol. ii, 

 p. 323.) 



As to cloge season : 



I think a closed season should he es- 

 tahlished for breeding seals from the 1st 



A few cows there [in Behring Sea] 

 would be in milk.— (British C<mnter- 

 Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 57.) 



I told him [United States Agent] I 

 thought the Sea ought to be closed till 



Janu;iry to the 15th August, in the North about end of July, and then let us go 

 Pacilic Ocean and Behring Sea.— (United in.— (British Counter-Case, vol. ii, p. 57. ) 

 States Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 323.) 



Mels Bonde. — As to proportion of females: 



The seals caught along the coast after 

 the Ist A|)ril are mostly pregnant fe- 

 males, and those caught in Behring Sea 

 were females that hail given birth to 

 their young. — (United States Case, Ap- 

 pendix, vol. ii, p. 316.) 



As to number of seals lost: 



A green hunter will not get more than 

 one out of five; and I have known one 

 hunter on our vessel who shot eighty 

 shots and got only four seals. — (United 

 States Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 316.) 



I would say that about 60 per cent, on 

 the coast were females, and about 50 per 

 cent, females in Behring Sea. — (British 

 Counter-Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 94.) 



The poor hunter missed half of those 

 he tired at ; he wounded a few, which 

 escaped; he sunk a few. — (British Coun- 

 ter-Case, Apjiendix, vol. ii, p. 94.) 



John Morris. — As to scarcity of seals: 



Seals are scarcer now than in former 

 years. . . , The seal herd will soon 

 become exterminated. — (United States 

 Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 340.) 



As to the jjroportion of females: 



We began sealing off Cape Flattery, 

 . . . . and captured about 800 seals 

 along the coast. There were not over 10 

 males in the whole lot. . . . Abont 

 the last of April 1883 I sailed from 

 Victoria, on a sealing voyage, on the 

 "Onward," Morris, master, .... 

 and captured about 400 seals while I was 

 on her. They were all females with pup, 

 excepting the yearlings, -which were 

 about one-half male and one-half female. 

 In February 1885 I sailed from Victoria, 

 British Columbia, in the schooner "76," 

 Potts, master, .... and caught 

 about 20 seals, all of which were pregnant 

 females. — (United States Case, Appendix, 

 vol. ii, p. 240.) 



James Eobert Jamieson. — As to number of seals lost: 



Each year I liave found the seals on the 

 coast about in the same numbers; 

 . . . . taking it one year with another 

 they don't change mucli. if at all. — (Brit- 

 ish Counter-Case, AjipendiXjVol. ii, p. 170. ) 



There is no getting out of the fact that 

 there are more males taken than females. 

 If any one says that I ever told him that 

 more females were taken than males he 

 says what is not true.— (British Counter- 

 Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 170.) 



The ordinary white hunter will, on an 

 average, lose over half that he kills and 

 wounds.— (United States Case, Appen- 

 dix, vol. ii. p. 331.) 



I think the average hunter would miss 

 one-third the seals shot at. . . . Not 

 over one seal in twenty cscajies after 

 being shot by the hunter. — (British Coun- 

 ter-Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 180.) 



352 As to proportion of females and pregnancy: 



In hunting along the coast, I think 

 al)out 80 per cent, of those we caught 

 were females, and most of them were 

 carrying their young.- (United States 

 Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 330.) 



Not over one in forty of the female 

 caught on the coast en rouie to Behring 

 Sea were with pup inside.— (British Coun- 

 ter-Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 180.) 



