402 RESULTS. 



Sometimes I lose one and sometimes two out of every ten that I 

 Hastings Yetknow, p. shoot. I always shoot the seal close to the boat, 

 302. so I don't lose many. 



Alf Yohansen, p. 369. The shotgun is used altogether for taking seal. 

 About 33£ per cent of the seal shot are lost. 



Paul Young, p. 292. Always use shot gnu for taking seal. I lose but 



very few seal, as I always shoot them very close 

 to the boat. 



Walter Young, p. 303. Have always used the shotgun for taking seal. 

 Think I lose about three out often of those I shoot. 



Tho8. Zohwks,p. 399. In hunting with spears I capture nearly all that 

 I hit. 



WOUNDING. 

 Page 191 of The Case. 



Those only wounded, whether fatally or otherwise, dive and escape 

 capture. The less severely wounded may, and in 

 Vol ''i many cases doubtless do, recover from their 



wounds; but, in the nature of things, many others 

 must die of their injuries. There is a wide range of chances between 

 an instantaneously fatal or disabling shut and a slight wound from 

 which the victim may readily recover, with obviously a large proportion 

 of them on the fatal side of the dividing line. 



A good many of the seals that I have caught in the last three or 

 four years have shot in them and some have been 

 Bowa-chup, p. 37(5. badly wounded. I have seen white hunters shoot- 

 ing seals out in the sea, and they lose a great 

 many more than they get, and we sometimes capture some of those 

 that they have badly wounded. 



Peter Brown, p. 377. But have caught a great many seals that had 



shot in them. 



I think a great many seals are wounded by hunters that are not 

 taken. The gunshot wounds more seals than the 



Chas. Challall, p. 411. rifle. I think the aim of the hunter is to kill the 

 seal rather than wound it. 



We often take seals that have been wounded with a rifle or shot- 

 gun, and in their bodies there are a large number 

 Jas. Claplanhoo, p. 382. of shot. 



Alfred Dardean, p. 322. A good many are wounded and escape, only to 

 die afterward. 



When 1 get seals now a great many have shot in them, a thing I 

 never saw before until about six or seven years 

 Frank Daois, p. 383. ago. 



