370 RESULTS. 



perience has not enabled me to positively distinguish the sex of a seal 

 while in the water. It is the custom to pay seal-hunters per skins 

 taken; hence it is the object of the hunters to secure as many as pos- 

 sible, without reference to sex, age, or condition. While hunting they 

 use small rowboats, with two or three men in each boat armed with 

 shotgun and rifle, chiefly the former, and it would be simply impossible 

 for the master or owners, even should they desire it, to supervise ten 

 or a dozen hunters as to the killing of any particular sex or kind. 



Wm. Hermann, p. 446. It is difficult to tell the sex of a seal which you 

 shoot at in the water, but you can tell a young seal 

 from an old seal. 



It is impossible to distinguish positively between females and males 



(other than large bulls) in the water at sea, and 



^Norman Hodgson, p. no eff()rt ig made fo (1() g0< Full-powered bulls 



are readily recognized by their great bulk and 

 darker fur. The killing of fur-seals is therefore absolutely indiscrim- 

 inate, as the object is to secure all the skins possible, irrespective of 

 sex, age, or condition. 



Hunters use no discrimination in shooting seal, but kill everthing 

 that comes near the boat. They could not dis- 



O. Holm, p. 368. criminate if they wanted to, as the sex can not 



be told in tlie water. 



The sex of seal can not be distinguished in the water, unless it be an 

 old bull. Xo discrimination is used in taking 



E. Hofstad, p. 260. seal; everything that comes near the boat is 

 killed. 



We try to take the seals when asleep on the waters, but the hunters 

 are usually paid a certain sum for each seal taken, 



Jas. Jamieson, p. 321. and they try to kill everything, without reference 

 to age, sex, or condition. 



I use no discrimination in killing seal, but kill everything that 



comes near the boat in the shape of a seal. Al- 



J. Johnson, />. 331. ways shoot seal in the back of the head, if possible. 



Sometimes seal are shot in the shoulders and 



wound them; then they can not get away. 



Jack Johnson, p. 282. Everything in the shape of a seal that comes 



near the boat is shot. 



Selwish Johnson, p. 388. I am unable to distinguish a male seal from a 

 female seal while at a distance in the water. 



Johnnie Johntin, p. 282. I shoot everything in shape of a seal that comes 

 near the boat, and use no discrimination. 



The sex of the seal can not be told in the water unless in the case of 



an old bull, which is told by its size. We use no 



m'" 1 ' 1 ' Kashemro -F> IK discrimination in shooting seal. Everything is 



killed that comes near the boat, regardless of sex. 



