284 ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Alexander McLean (ibid., p. 430) killed them as far off as 150 miles 

 off the land. Tliey were mothers with young. 



Daniel McLean {ibid., p. 444) killed mothers all the way from 20 to 65 

 miles off St. George and St. Paul. 



Robert H. McManus (ibid., p. 335), a resident of Victoria; by profes 

 sion anewspaper correspondent; went for his health on a sealing expedi- 

 tion. His deposition is exceptionally minute and interesting. The men 

 on his ship (Schooner Otto) killed them at a distance of 200 miles from the 

 rookeries. Over three-fourths of his catch were cows in milk. Judged 

 from the number of shots tired that it took about one hundred to 

 secure one seal; one day there was a total catch of seventeen seals; 

 greater proportion were in milk; horrid sight; could not stay the 

 ordeal out till all were flayed. 



Thomas Madden (ibid., p. 403) has spent or had been going to the 

 Bering Sea over 12 years, which he entered about June. Most of the 

 seals killed were cows and he saw the milk run out of their breasts 

 on the deck as they were being skinned. 



G. E. Miner (ibid., p. 400) killed seals with milk 250 miles from the 

 Pribilof Islands. 



Thomas F. Morgan (ibid., p. 60) says that the female goes 40 miles or 

 even farther from the island. 



Niles Kelson (ibid., p. 400) swears that he has lilted mothers in milk 100 

 miles or more from the island. 



Dr.Noyes (ibid., p. 82), resident physician and sometimes schoolmaster 

 on the islands, says that the female mother goes a distance of from 40 to 

 200 miles from the island to feed. His deposition is very full and inter- 

 esting. It is valuable as shedding light on most, if not all, of the ques- 

 tions here involved. 



John Olsen (ibid., p. 471) swears that he shot twenty-eight himself from 

 50 to 150 miles off the seal islands. They were mothers full of milk. 



Other witnesses estimate the distance at 00 miles, 100 miles, etc. 

 See T. F. Ryan (ibid:, p. 175), C. M. Scammon (ibid., p. 473), Adolphus 

 Sayres (ibid., p. 473), L. G. Shepard (ibid,, p. 1S7), William H. Smith 

 (ibid., p. 478), Z. L. Tanner (ibid., p. 374). 



Oapt. Tanner, lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, 

 makes n deposition which is entitled to particular consideration. The 

 following is a short extract: 



Seals killed in Bering Sea after the birth of pups are largely mother 

 seals, and the farther they are found from the islands the greater the per- 



