ATTITUDE OP SEALS WHEN AIMED AT. 379 



Q. Are the seals shot at asleep on the water or Daniel McLean,p. in. 

 awake, usually"? — A. Most asleep. 



Mostly all the seals we shot at were sleepers. Patrick Mar oney, p. 464. 



Q. Are the seals you shoot at mostly asleep on Frank Moreau, p. 468. 

 the water or awake"? — A. They are mostly asleep. 



We try tokill theseal while sleeping on the water, Edwin r. Porter, p. 347. 

 but also shoot at them when they are breaching. 



Q. Are the seals you shoot at mostly asleep on the water or awake, 

 and if awake, do you shoot at them while breach- ( , „ 



ing?-A. Yes, sir; if they are breaching I gener- ^[" star(J S "" draU > 1K 

 ally shoot at them, but if they are sleeping L 

 generally take them at first while asleep, of course. 



The hunter tries to shoot the seals in the head John J. Swain, p. 351. 

 or through the heart. 



The most of the seals that we killed were asleep Adolph N. Thompson, 

 on the water. P- *86. 



Hunters always shoot a seal in the head when they can do so. If 

 we can't shoot them in the head we shoot them ,_„ _ , 

 in the chest if possible. Alf ' Y ° h « ns ™> P- 369 - 



PERCENTAGE LOST.— GENERAL STATEMENTS. 



We had a row on board because some of the hunters were green 

 hands and the men would not go out in the boats 

 with them. They took the hunters out of our Ghas - Adair > P- 40 °- 

 boats and put them into the other boats that made no catch, and then 

 we kicked that they should put the green hunters into our boats, be- 

 cause everything they would shoot would sink on them and were lost. 



The destructiveness to seal life by pelagic hunting is very great. 

 The majority of seals killed are pregnant females, 



so that two lives are often sacrificed in securing A - &• Alexander, p. 3o6. 

 one skin. This is true whether firearms or spears are used. In addi- 

 tion to this, the number of skins marketed does not represent the num- 

 ber actually destroyed, for mauy are killed that are not secured, while 

 others, though fatally wounded, still possess strength enough to escape 

 their pursuers. 



Of those killed, the number saved varies with the Chas. Avery, p. 218. 

 skill of the hunters. Last year we lost very few. 



A very few are lost when shot with the shot- Johnny Baronovitoh, p. 

 gun, as we shoot them close to the boat. 276 - 



In hunting with the spear we don't lose many Peter Brown, p. 377. 

 that we hit. I never hunted with guns. 



