124 THE PUPS. 



Seals do not give birth to their young in the water nor on the help. 



1 never saw any blade pups in the water, but we 



Wilson Parker, p. 392. used to catch a great many mare gray pups than 



we do now, and I have never captured any cows 



along the coast that were giving milk and that had given birth to their 



young that year. 



Seals do not haul out upon the land along the coast and give birth to 



their young; nor do they breed on the kelp. If 



Chas. Peterson, p. 310. ever there was such an occurrence it must have 



been a premature birth caused by some accident 



to the female seal, and would result iu the death of her young. 



I never hunted fur seals, but I have a knowledge of their habits and 

 movements, and I never saw a pup seal in the 



7r»;. Eohde, p. 222. water or on a bed of kelp, and I know a pup 

 seal could not live and thrive on a kelp bed. 



William Short, p. 348. Nor do T know of any instances where the seals 

 give birth to their young on the kelp. 



John A. Swain, p. 350. Nor do they give birth to their young on the 

 kelp. 



John Tysum, p. 394. Nor do they breed on the kelp or in the water. 



Charley White, p. 396. Nor do I think they give birth to the young in 

 the water on the kelp. 



Wispoo, p. 397. Seals do not give birth to their young in the 



water nor on the kelp. 



PODDING. 



Page 105 of The Case. 



When the pups grow to be 6 or 8 weeks old they form in " pods " and 



work down to the shore, and they try the water at 

 E. Artomanoff, p. 100. the edge uutil they learn to swim> 



By the middle of July the mothers were going constantly back and 



forth to sea; the pups, left more to themselves, 



/. Stanley Brown, p. 16. collected in groups— " pods," as they are called— 



and by the last of July they worked their way 



down to the shore and began learning to swim. 



The pups remain upon the rookeries at or near where they are born 

 until about 5 or weeks old, when they congre- 

 E. E. Mclntyre, p. 41. gate in groups or « po ds." 



At that age [G or 8 weeks] they form themselves into" pods" and 

 work themselves down to the water's edge. After 



S. B. Netllcton, p. 75. several days of repeated trials and failures they 

 finally learn to swim, 



