SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE. 307 



North Pacific Ocean and Bering- Sea, were cows. I should say not 

 less than 80 per cent of those caught each year were of that sex. I 

 have observed that those killed in the North Pacific were mostly 

 females carrying their young, and were generally caught while asleep 

 on the water, while those taken in the Bering Sea were nearly all 

 mother seals in milk, that had left their young and were in search of 

 food. My experience convinces me that a large percentage of the 

 seals now killed by shooting with rifles and shotguns are lost. My 

 estimate would be that two out of every three killed are lost. 



See the testimony of Francis E. King-Hall, the journalist. 



Edward Nighl Lawson, a resident of St. Pauls, Kadiak Island, 

 Alaska (ibid., p. 221), killed females in milk in Unimak Pass, and even 

 out in the Pacific Ocean 200 miles from land. They can not distinguish 

 between the sex of fur-seals in the water; on the contrary, everything 

 in sight is taken, if possible, except large bulls, whose skins are use- 

 less. He recommends, in order to prevent the extermination of the 

 fur-seal species, that a close season in the North Pacific Ocean and in 

 Bering Sea should be established and enforced from April 1 to No- 

 vember 1 in each year. 



Abial P. Loud (ibid., p. 37), a resident of Hampden, Me., special as- 

 sistant treasury agent for the seal islands in 1885, 18SG, 1888, and 1889. 



William Mclsaacs (ibid., p. 450). 



Capt. James E. Lennan (ibid., ]). 3G9), master mariner of eight years' 

 experience. 



William McLaughlin (ibid., p. 451), boat-puller on board the Triumph. 



Eobert H. McManus (ibid., p. 335), a journalist, whose qualifications 

 have been spoken of heretofore, gives, on pp. 337 and 338, extracts from 

 his diary. This deposition should be read in whole. 



Patrick Maroney (ibid., p. 4G4), of San Francisco, a seaman. 



Henry Mason (ibid., p. 4G5), of Victoria, British Columbia. 



Moses (ibid., p. 309), a native Nitnat Indian, gives his experience in 

 1887 on the schooner A da. They sealed around Unalaska, but did not go 

 to the Pribilof Islands. They caught 1,900 seals. Most all of them were 

 cows in milk, but when they first entered the sea they killed a few cows 

 that had pups in them. The next year they secured only 800, and the 

 year following eight or nine hundred. The seals caught were mostly 

 cows with milk. 



John O'Brien (ibid., p. 470), of San Francisco, a longshoreman, made 

 a sealing voyage to the North Pacific and Bering Sea on the Schooner 

 Alexander, which sailed from Victoria in January, 1885. He was a boat 

 puller. They headed north into the Bering Sea which they entered at 



