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one they would skin and keep it for themselves. He had eight such 

 skins himself. Four out of five, if caught in May or June, would be 

 alive when they cut them out of the mothers. They kept one of them 

 nearly three weeks alive on deck by feeding it on condensed milk. One 

 of the men finally killed it because it cried so pitifully. They got only 

 three seals with pups in them in the Bering Sea. Most all of them 

 weie females that had given birth to their young on the island, and the 

 milk would run out of the teats on the deck when they were skinned. 

 They caught female seals in milk more than 100 miles off the Pribilof 

 Islands. 



The same witness states that they lost a good many seals, but he does 

 not know the proportion that was lost to the number killed. Some of 

 the hunters would lose four out of every six killed. They tried to shoot 

 them while asleep, but shot all that came in their way. If they killed 

 them too dead a great many would sink before they could get them, 

 and these were lost. Sometimes they could get some of them that had 

 sunk by the gaff hook, but they could not get many that way. A good 

 many were wounded and escaped only to die afterward. 



Frank Davis (ibid., p. 383), a native Indian of the Makah tribe, was 

 sealing in the Bering Sea in 1889. He says, agreeing in this with all the 

 other witnesses, that nearly all of the full-grown cows along the coast 

 have pups in them, but the seals that he caught in Bering Sea were 

 most all cows in milk. 



Jeff Davis (ibid., p. 384), and also a native Makah Indian, says that 

 most of the seals that were captured there that season — that is, in 

 18S9 — were cows giving milk. 



Capt. Douglass (ibid., p. 420): His testimony is that a very large pro- 

 portion of the seals killed along the coast and at sea, from Oregon to 

 the Aleutian Islands, are female seals with pups; in his judgment not 

 less than 95 per cent, as has been quoted heretofore. He also says that 

 the proportion of female seals killed in Bering Sea is equally large. 



Peter Duffy (ibid., p. 41). By occupation a seaman on board the Sea 

 Otter, Captain Williams, master. They left San Francisco and fished 

 up the coast until they entered Bering Sea in July, and sealed 

 about the sea until they were driven oft by the revenue cutter Corwin. 

 From there they went to the Copper Islands. The whole catch 

 amounted to nine hundred skius, and most of them were killed with 

 rifles. They only got one out of about eight that they shot at, and 

 they were most all females giving milk or in pup. When they cut the 



