PERCENTAGE LOST. GENERAL STATEMENTS. 381 



That in pelagic sealing twice as many seals are w. P. Griffith, p. 260. 

 lost as are captured. 



In the Bering Sea we killed both male aud fe- Jas. Harrison, p. 326. 

 male, but I do not know the proportion of one to 

 the other. 



Always shoot the seal close to the boat and rarely Hooniah Dick,p. 258. 

 lose one, but when shot at with the rifle I lose a 

 good many. 



I have always used spears in hunting seals, and seldom wounded or 

 hit one that I did not get, until in 1891, which 

 year, and the only one, I went to Bering Sea and Alf era Irving, 2^.386. 

 used the shotgun part of the time. I found in the 

 use of the shotgun that a great many of the seals that were killed or 

 wounded were lost. 



Quite a number of seals are lost; I don't know Jack Johnson, p. 282. 

 how many. 



We lose but very few seals that we hit with a Selwish Johnson, p. 388. 

 spear. 



At the village of Hesquiat I met Father Brabant, a Belgian priest, 

 who had lived for twenty seven years among the 



Indians of the west coast. Through him i ob- } ^ noia B - Kin 9- H " ll > 

 tained the Indian view of the present condition p ' 

 of the Alaskan seal herd. I found that by the use of the spear very 

 few seals were lost, and that the Indians of Vancouver had at one 

 time a law among themselves prohibiting the use of guns in taking 

 seals. 



When seal were struck with a spear none were C. Klananeck, p. 263. 

 lost; a great many are lost when the shotgun is 

 used. 



I have often heard them say that they only get two or three out of a 

 school, and when they kill them, if they do not 

 get them right away, they will sink and are lost. Jas Lajiin, p. 451. 

 Further, that they lose a good many that they 

 kill. 



The total catch on being analyzed shows a favorable comparison be- 

 tween the experienced and inexperienced hunt- 

 ers, when the class of boats and arms are taken ^l bert H ' MoMan,ls > 

 into consideration, and the extraordinary num- p ' 

 bers reported as wounded and lost, dispels any faith in the oft- repeated 

 assertion that only one in ten escape from "the unerring rifle in the 

 hands of the experienced hunter." The number, two-thirds of the 

 catch, captured by the Indians, gives the verdict entirely in favor of 

 the primitive weapon of the aborigines as against the modern breech- 

 loader. 



Q. Do you generally shoot seals with a rifle or Frank Moreau, p. 469. 

 shotgun? — A. A shotgun. Ninety per cent are 

 killed with a shotgun. 



