396 RESULTS. 



When a seal is struck with a spear we never 

 Robert Kooko, p. 296. lose him. About 50 per cent are lost when shot 

 with a Shotgun. 



About 60 per cent of the seal are lost when shot with a shotgun. 



Jas Kowhteet p 264 Wlien li±les are used a mucu larger proportion is 

 ' lost. 



About 50 per cent of the seals are lost when shot with shotguns; a 

 Geo Lacheek v 264 niuch larger per cent are lost when shot with a 

 ' rifle. 



Of all the fur-seals struck in the entire season by both implements 

 more than two-thirds were actually secured, the 



Jas. E. Lennan, p. 36'J. greater proportion of losses resulting from the use 

 of the shotgun. 



On an average a hunter gets one seal out of four. Some hunters do 



not get that many, because the seals sink out of 



Caleb Lindahl, p. 456. sight after they are killed before we can get them. 



I have known of poor hunters losing nine out of 



ten. 



The average hunter will fire ten times to get one seal. I think on 

 mi average 1 

 three killed. 



Wm. H. Long, p. 458. an average lie S ets about oue seal out of ever y 



Q. What percentage of seals are taken compared to those you de- 

 stroy in doing so; in other Avoids, how many do 

 Chas. Lutjens, p. 458. you actually get out of those you shoot? — A. I 

 should say we get about -SO per cent of those we 

 shoot. 



Q. Is it not a fact that when you first started in the business and 

 was inexperienced in hunting, that you, like all other beginners, de- 

 stroyed a much larger proportion than you now do? — A. There is no 

 doubt about that. 



The hunters would get on an average two out of* every six that he 

 wounded or killed. Seals were quite plentiful at 



Thos. Lyons, p. 460. that time, and there were lots of them destroyed 

 that we did not get. 



Geo. HcAlpine, p. 266. The shotgun was used exclusively. Over 50 per 

 cent of the seal shot were lost. 



J. D. McDonald, p. 266. I think we lose about 66 per cent of the seals 

 shot with shotguns. 



Taking the general average, we would not get more than two seal 



out of every ten that the hunters shot at. Out of 



Wm. Mclsaac, p. 461. every sixty-five seal that was brought aboard the 



schooner I got one, so I tried to spear as many as 



I could after they were shot. We caught more seals in the Bering Sea 



than we did going along the coast, as we found more of them. * * * 



All the seals that Ave shot at in rough weather were lost. In fine 



weather they sleep on top of the water and we do not lose so many of 



them. 



