IV TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



SIXTH. 



Pago. 



Summary of the evidence 228-313 



I. The general nature and characteristics of the fur seal 230 



II. The difference between the Alaskan and the Russian fur-seals 232 



A. The herds are different 233 



B. The Alaskan does not mingle with the Russian herd 241 



C. The Alaskan fur-seals have hut one homo, namely, the Pribilof 



Islands. They never leave this home without the animus 

 revertendi, and are never seen ashore except on those islands.. 249 



III. Movements of the seals after the birth of the young 251 



IV. The entire office of reproduction and rearing of young is and must 



he performed on land 254 



V. The pup is entirely dependent upon its mother for nourishment for 



several months after its birth 



The cows will suckle their own pups only, and the suckling is 



done on land 261 



VI. The cows, while suckling, go to the sea for food, and sometimes to 

 distances as great as 100 and 200 miles, and are during such 



excursions exposed to capture by pelagic sellers 266 



VII. Death of the cow causes the death of the pup 269 



VIII. The fur-seal is a polygamous animal, and the male is at least four 

 times as large as the female. As a rule, each male serves 

 about fifteen or twenty females, but in some cases as many 



as fifty or more (Case of the United States, p. 327) 286 



IX. Destruction by pelagic sealing and its extent — theremedy proposed 

 by the British Commissioners — the true and only remedy con- 

 sists in absolute prohibition of pelagic sealing 295 



SEVENTH. 

 Points in reply to the British Counter Case 314-327 



