398 RESULTS. 



Our hunter was a good one. His name was Joe Williams. I think 



he got one out of every three on a average. He 



Wm. Mason, p. 406. used a rifle a good deal and was a fine shot; some 



of the hunters in the other boats would shoot at 



the seal and not get any at all, and come, in at night without any, or 



may be one or two. There was one hunter from Nova Scotia that did 



not kill any scarcely. 



E. Miner, p. 466. I think about 33 per cent of the seals shot with 



a shotgun are lost. 



A mos Mill, p. 285 About 20 per cent of the seals I shoot with shot- 



gun are lost. 



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

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

 Frank Morean, p. 468. you actually get out of those you shoot?— A. 



About 75 per cent. We lose about 25 per cent. 

 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 do now! — A. Certainly j 

 there is no doubt about that. 



From my knowledge of the aquatic habits of the seal and the difficulty 

 of accurate shooting when the object is in the 



T. F. Morgan, p. 65. water, I am of the opinion that a large number of 

 se;ils are also killed by vessels engaged in the 

 business of taking seals in the open seas, which are not caught. I am 

 unable to form any estimate of the number of seals, shot orspeared from 

 vessels, which are lost, but in the last two or three years of my resi- 

 dence at St. George Island, in taking 15,000 seals, I found, approxi- 

 mately, 3 pounds of lead, in the form of slugs, bullets, and buckshot, 

 which I personally took from the bodies of male seals, some of which 

 were so badly wounded that they would have died; and I have person- 

 ally examined the log of the schooner Angel Dollie, in which it was 

 stated that the hunters from that vessel got about one seal out of every 

 ten seals shot at; also that on one occasion they fired 250 rounds and 

 got 20 seals; on another occasion 100 cartridges and got 6 seals; and 

 which log also stated that the captain personally shot and killed 7 seals 

 of which he got only one. 



Jno. Morris, p. 340. They lost very few of the seals they speared. 



They secured about all of the seals they speared. 



When in Bering Sea I had an opportunity to observe the difference 

 in the number of seals lost by killing them with 

 Moses, p. 310. shotguns and by taking them with spears. The 



hunters that used shotguns lost more than one- 

 half they shot, while the hunters that used spears seldom ever lost one 

 that they hit. 



Morris Moss, p. 342. It is generally conceded that the Indian hunters 



in the use of the sj>ear seldom lose one they kill 

 or wound. 



