PERCENTAGE LOST OF SEALS KILLED. 385 



PERCENTAGE LOST OF SEALS KILLED. 



Page 195 of the Case. 



From my experience I am satisfied that 33J per cent shot with a shot- 

 gun are lost, and when a rifle is used a larger per 

 cent are lost when killed. Peter Ande ™°»> P- 31 3- 



We lost fully three out of four that we killed. S. Andrieius, p. 314. 



On an average, we saved one out of three that o Bernhardt Bleidner, p. 

 were killed. 315, 



It is my honest belief that for every fur-seal J- A > Bradley, p. 227. 

 skin obtained by pelagic sealers, at least five other 

 seals' lives are taken. 



During the trip of 1891 I don't think we got more than one seal out 

 of six that we killed ; many were wounded, and 

 others were shot dead and sank before the boat ^hos. Brown (.No. i),p. 

 could get to them. 



I think on an average I got one out of every three killed, but some 

 of my hunters did not do as well. It is difficult 

 to get more than one breaching seal out of six Jas. L. Carthcut,p. 409. 

 killed. It is the custom for hunters to brag about 



how many seals they get out of the number killed, and in trying to 

 outdo each other they generally exaggerate the facts. 



No seal was lost when struck with spear. Fifty per cent are lost 

 when killed with shotgun, and a larger propor- Simeon CMn-lcoo-Un, p. 

 tion are lost when the rifle is used. 256. 



Native hunters secure about one-third of all fur-seals killed at sea, 

 while in ray belief white hunters secure even a M Colien p 225. 

 less number in proportion to those killed. 



An average hunter will get one out of four of breaching seals, and 

 one out of three of sleepers that he kills, but a 

 common hunter will not get so mauy. reter CoUins > p - 41d> 



And that a vast number of the seals killed by Leander Cox, p. 417. 

 them are lost. 



It is my experience that very few, if any, seals were lost by the hunt- 

 ers who use the spear, but fully 75 per cent of all 

 those killed by the rifle were lost. Jas ' Dal 9 ardm > *• 3b4 - 



Our hunters used shotguns, and were good hunters. They lost a 

 good many seals, but I do not know what propor- 

 tion was lost to those killed. Some of the hunt- Alferd Dardean, p. 322. 

 ers would lose four out of every six killed. 

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