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the latter end of May. Up to that time they had caught 250 or 300 

 seals of which 80 per cent were females. After they entered the Ber- 

 ing Sea they caught about 700 seals, most all of them being females in 

 milk. He also shows that there is a very considerable waste of life 

 from killing or wounding and losing animals. 



JohnOlsen, (ibid., p. 471) of Seattle, Wash., a ship-carpenter, entered 

 the Bering Sea about the 5th of June, 1891, on board the Labrador , 

 Capt. Whiteleigh, commander. They were ordered out of the sea on the 

 9th of June. In going up the coast to Unimak Pass they caught about 

 400 seals, mostly females with young, and put their skins on board the 

 Danube, an English steamboat at Allatack Bay, and after they got into 

 the Bering Sea caught about 220. After entering the sea they got one 

 female with a very large pup, which he took out alive and which he 

 kept for three or four days when it died as it would not eat anything. 

 All the others had given birth to their young and their breasts were 

 full of milk. He also states how large a loss is made by failure to 

 recover the animals that are killed. 



Osly (ibid., p. 391), a native Makah Indian, went to the Bering Sea in 

 1886 on board the Favorite, McLean, master. They captured about 4,700 

 seals, almost all of which were cows giving milk. Four years before 

 that he had gone to Bering Sea as a hunter in the scaling schooner 

 Challenger, Williams, master. There were 3 white men in each boat 

 and 2 Indians in a canoe. We caught about 3,000 seals, most of which 

 were cows in milk. 



William Short (ibid., -p. 348), of Victoria, British Columbia, is by oc- 

 cupation a painter. On January 14, 1890, he sailed as a boat-puller 

 from Victoria on the British sealing schooner Maggie Mac, Dodd, mas- 

 ter. She carried six sealing boats that were manned by three white 

 men each, who used breech-loading shotguns and rifles. On the 12th 

 of July they entered the sea through the Unimak Pass. Before this 

 they had captured 1,120 seals on the coast. They lowered their boats 

 on the 13th and captured about 2,093 seals in those waters and then 

 returned to Victoria on the 19th of September. In July, 1891, he sailed 

 out of the port of Victoria as a hunter on the British sealing schooner 

 Otto, O'Beily, master. Failing to procure the Indian crew of sealers 

 that they had expected, they returned to Victoria, after proceeding up 

 the coast, on the 1st of August. While cruising along the coast their 

 principal catch was females with pups. Fully 90 per cent of all seals 

 secured by them while in the Bering Sea w T ere cows with milkj that 

 is to say, out of 2,093 all but about 300 were nursing mothers. 



