382 RESULTS. 



Matthew Morris, p. 286. Always use the shotgun for taking seals. I 

 lose very few, as I always shoot them elose to the 

 boat. 



Moses, p. 310. The white men shot a great many seals that 



they did not get, but the Indians secured nearly 

 all that they speared. 



I can not say how many seals are killed and wounded, but there is no 



„ . , r _._ doubt that green hunters lose many, while those 



Moms Moss, p. 342. • i-j.ii ■ i \- 



,x more experienced in the business lose lewer. 



We used the spear more than the gun and secured nearly all of them 



that we hit with it, but lost a great many seals 



Osly,p. 391. that we shot. We prefer to use the spear because 



in so doing we do not lose so many or frighten 



them away. 



Adolphu8Sayers,pA73. The shotgun is not as fatal as the rifle, but it 

 ruins the skins of the seals. 



Breech-loading firearms (rifles and shotguns) are the instruments 

 principally employed by pelagic fur-seal hunters, 

 John W. Smith, p. 233. both native and white. By means of these weap- 

 ons a. greater number of skins are secured in a 

 season than when spears are used; but the proportion of seals struck 

 and lost to those actually secured is much less than when the spear is 

 used. 



The best hunter will fire about twenty cartridges, and they get ten 

 or twelve seals, while a hunter of less experience 

 Adolph IV. Thompson, w m nre oue h um l m l rounds and get nothing, but 

 2" will wound and disable them. 



Charlie Wank, p. 273. When the Spear was used no seal were- lost. 



Now a great many are lost when shot with a shot- 

 gun and rifle. 



Charley White, p. 395. I have always used spears in hunting the seals, 

 and very seldom lose one I hit. 



The investigation further disclosed the fact that of the large number 

 of seals killed by pelagic hunters only a portion of 



W. II. Williams, p. 93. them are secured, and while all admitted that 

 some were lost they differed very considerably as 

 to the number. In one instauce a hunter claimed that lie secured nearly 

 all that he killed, and in another instance it was said that only one out 

 of fifteen was secured. A great majority of the hunters when closely 

 questioned admitted the losing of a large proportion shot at, and I am 

 of the opinion that the wide difference in their statement was due to 

 two facts: First, some hunters are more skillful than others; and, sec- 

 ond, some base their estimate on what they know to have been actually 

 killed, while others estimate from the number shot at 



