SINKING. 405 



The females sink almost immediately wlien shot, Chas. Avery, p. 218. 

 if heavy with young. 



When a seal is hilled dead, he will sink very quick, which is the 

 reason I never shoot them unless they are so near 

 the boat that I can secure them. Seal are always Adam Ayonkee, p. 255. 

 shot in the head when possible. 



We tried to shoot the seals in the head or heart, for if we shot them 

 in any other place we would lose them, and if we 

 killed them dead they would sink and niauy of 31 jP er * hard * Bleidner > P- 

 them we could not get. 



Seal when shot dead sink very quick, and are wuton C.Bennett,p.356. 

 hard to secure under those conditions. 



When seals are shot when they first put their heads above water 

 they sink at once and are hard to secure. Always 

 try to shout seal in the head. If head is not ex- Martin Benson, #.405. 

 posed, we shoot them in other parts of the body. 



Fur-sealssinkalinostinstantlyafterbeingstruck J- A. Bradley, p. 227. 

 and unless picked up immediately can not be re- 

 covered. 



A great many seals that are shot would sink before we could secure 

 them. Sometimes the water above the sinking 

 seal would be so discolored by the blood that it Henry Brown, p. 318. 

 was impossible to see it and secure it with the 

 gaff-hook, which all sealing boats carry for that purpose. 



If we didn't get to a seal soon after it was shot it would sink, and 

 we lost a great many; probably got about one Thos. Brown (No. l), 

 out of five of all the seals shot. v- 319. 



I lost a great many that were killed by their Jas. L.Carthcut,p.i09. 

 sinking before we could get to them. 



When seal are shot dead they almost instantly S. Chinkootin, p. 257. 

 sink and are hard to secure. 



Fur-seals when Shot dead, Sink almost im- Julius Christiansen, p. 



mediately. 219. 



If seal are instantly killed they will sink very quick, and are harder 



to secure under those conditions than they would „ ± _, 



\ ~ ix> u~a\ „jj Peter Church, p. 257. 



be it badly wounded. ' r 



Sometimes I would kill the seal dead and it would sink in the water 

 almost as quickly as a rock, and unless we were 

 quick to reach it, it would be lost. Sometimes we j a s. claplanhoo,p. 382. 

 fish them up out of the water with a gaff" hook, 

 and would secure a few that way. 



