228 THE SEALS. 



Only two females were ever killed, to my knowledge, by the natives 



in driving. I then made every effort to discover 



B. F. Scriiner, p. 90. wlioliad killed them, my object being to thoroughly 



impress on the minds of the natives and the agents 



of the lessees that the accident must not occur again. 



W. B. Taylor, p. 176. I never saw but one female killed out of the 

 20,000 taken on St. George Island in 1881, and 

 that was accidental. 



George Wardman, p. 178. A female was never killed while I was on St. 

 George, except by accident. 



Every care is taken in driving the seals from the hauling to the kill- 

 ing grounds, and, daring the regular killing sea- 

 Daniel Webster, p. 181. son of June and July, there are no females driven 

 because, at this season, they are upon the breed- 

 ing rookeries and do not intermingle with the young males. If occa- 

 sionally one does happen to be in the drive, great care is taken not to 

 injure her; the law prohibiting the killing of the female seal is well 

 understood by the natives, and they are thoroughly in sympathy with 

 it. Even were I to request them to kill a female seal they would 

 refuse to do it, and would immediately report me to the Government 

 agent. 1 have known an occasional one to be killed by accident dur- 

 ing the food drives late in the season when the males and females inter- 

 mingle on the hauling grounds, but the clubber was always severely 

 rebuked by the chief for his carelessness as well as by the Government 

 and company pfficers. 



My observation is that the number of female seals killed on the 

 islands from all causes is too insignificantly small to be noticed. 



It is a fact that none but male seals are ever driven and killed on 

 the islands, and great care is taken to preserve a 



TV. H. Williams, p. 04. sufficient number each year to supply the breeding 

 rookeries. 



THE KILLABLE CLASS. 



Pago 152 of The Case. 

 (See also " Dependence on Alaskan Herd " under " The Seal-sTdn Industry. ") 



John Armstrong, p. 1. And comparatively few as old as live years come 

 up with the droves to the killing grounds. 



KerrickArtomanoff,p. 101. Our people like the meat of the seal, and we eat 

 no other meat so long as we can get it. 

 The pup seals are our chicken meat, and we used to be allowed to kill 

 3,000 or 4,000 male pups every year in November, but the Government 

 agent forbade us to kill any in 1891, and said we should not be allowed 

 to kill any more, and he gave us other meat in place of "pup" ineatj 

 but we do not like any other meat as well as pup-seal meat. 



While the breeding grounds have been left undisturbed to their own 



career, the hauling grounds have alternately been 



J. Stanley Brown, p. 16. the scene of drives for the purpose of killing. The 



immature bachelors form the bulk of the seals that 



