SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE. 283 



judgment that, taking the run of hunters, good and bad, the best get 

 about 50 per cent of those shot at, and the poorest not more than one, 

 out of fifteen. 



Cumulative testimony to this- effect might be cited to the extent of 

 wearisome repetition, but if the learned Arbitrators should desire to 

 pursue the subject as far as the evidence will permit, we give below 

 references to the testimony to be found in the Appendix and not spe- 

 cially quoted. 



We submit that it is absolutely conclusive unless, as we have sug- 

 gested before, for sonic unknown reason it should be rejected as inten- 

 tionally and criminally false. 



Arthur Griffin (ibid., p. 325) captured females from 20 to 200 miles 

 Iron i the rookeries. 



James Griffin (ibid., p. 433) hilled female seals full of milk 90 miles 

 from the islands. 



Martin Hannon (ibid., p. 445) killed them full of milk 100 miles from 

 the seal islands. 



-lames Harrison (ibid., p. 320) caught 200 seals in the Behring Sea 

 about the 1st of June, mostly viol hers. 



James Hayward (ibid., p. 327) caught them 150 miles from the shore 

 and skinned them when their breasts were full of milk, lie says that they 

 travel very fast and go a long way to feed. 



J. Johnson (ibid., p. 331) killed female seals full of milk 75 miles from 

 the island; used a shotgun and killed everything. 



Louis Kimmel (ibid., p. 173j had observed them at least 20 miles from 

 the islands. 



Andrew Laing (ibid., p. 334) had caught them 75 to 100 miles from 

 the island and in skinning them the milk would run out of the teats of the 

 females, they having given birth recently to young on the islands. 



William U.Long (ibid., p. 457) killed mothers in milk all the way from 

 10 to 200 miles offshore. 



Thomas Lowe (ibid., p. 371) in L889 hunted in the Bering Sea from 

 80 to 100 miles off the Pribilof Islands. Two-thirds of his catch were 

 cows in milk. 



Thomas Lyons (ibid., p. 460) about the 26th or 28th of dune went 

 into the Bering Sea and caught 389 seals, nearly all of which were 

 mothers in milk. He knows it as he saw the milk flow on the deck 

 while skinning them. 



William M. McLaughlin (ibid., p. 461) killed them 50 to 60 miles off 

 shore, most of them with milk. 



