152 THE COWS. 



Wm. Frazer, p. 427. We killed females giving milk more than 100 



miles from the seal islands. 



John Fyfe, p. 429. We killed some of them from 50 to 100 miles off 



the seal islands, and were very tame. 



Chad. George, p. 366. Have killed seals 200 miles from the Pribilof 



Islands that were full of milk. 



Tho8. Gibson, p. 432. I have killed mother seals in milk from 40 to 100 



miles off the seal islands. 



During the entire sealing season males of all classes remain on the 



islands, except that the bachelors once in a while 



H. A. GUdden, p. 110. go into the water, but remain in the vicinity of 



the islands. The females, on the contrary, are 



going and coming to and from the water for the purpose of feeding. I 



believe it is while the females are thus going to and from the feeding 



grounds and through the Aleutian passes that they are intercepted and 



shot by open-sea scalers. 



I have also learned by conversation with Bering Sea hunters that 

 they kill seal cows 20 to 200 miles from the breed - 

 E. M. Greenieaf, p. 321. in g grounds and that these cows had recently 

 given birth to young. I have observed in the 

 skins that the size of the teats shows either an advanced state of preg- 

 nancy or of recent delivery of young. 



Arthur Griffin, p. 326. Those they shoot. We captured females in 

 milk from 20 to 100 miles from the rookeries. 



James Griffin, p. 433. Have killed female seal 00 miles from the seal 

 islands that were full of milk. 



Majority of the seals taken in Bering Sea are females with milk in 

 ,, ,. _ .._ them. Have killed them full of milk 100 miles 



Martin Han non, p. 445. ~ ,-, 1 ■ 1 i 



'■* from the seal islands. 



We entered the Bering Sea about the 1st of June, and caught about 

 200 seals in those waters. They were mostly 



James Harrison, p. 326. mothers that had given birth to their young and 

 were around the fishing banks feeding. 



Most of the seals killed on the coast are pregnant females, while 



those we killed in the Bering Sea after the 1st of 



James Hayward, p. 328. July were females that had given birth to their 



young on the seal islands and come out into the 



sea to feed. Have caught them lo0 miles off from the shore of the seal 



islands, and have skinned them when their breasts were full of milk. 



Seals travel very fast and go a long way to feed. 



It is known and currently believed among the natives of the seal is- 

 lands, and also among the employes of the sealing 

 W. S. Hereford, p. 34. company, past and present, that the mother seal 

 will go great distances and be gone for long pe- 

 riods of time in quest of food. Such is also my observation and belief. 



