406 RESULTS. 



If we killed them too dead a great many would sink before we could 

 get them and were lost. Sometimes we could 

 Alferd Bardean, p. 322. get some of these that had sunk with the gaff 

 hook, but could not save many that way. 



About two years ago I began to hunt with guns, but always carried 



a spear. Since I have been hunting with guns I 



Ellabush, p. 385. loge a great maU y sea ] s that I shoot. I kill some 



dead and they sink like a rock. 



From my own experience, and what I have been 

 Wm. Foster, p. 220. toM by other hunters, about one-half of the seais 



killed sink. * * * 



A seal, if shot dead, will sink almost immediately. 



Most all the seals sunk or dove out of sight when killed or 

 wounded and a great many of them we could not 

 get. 



Wm. Frazer, p. 427. 



John Fyfe, p. 429. When we shot the seals dead they would sink 



and we would not get them. 



When seals are shot in the head and instantly killed they will 

 sink at once and are hard to secure under those 

 Jas. Gondowen, p. 259. con ditions. 



Nicoli Gregoroff et ah, Large seals sink rapidly, while the smaller ones 

 p. 234. float a few minutes. 



Fur-seals sink almost invariably in less than three minutes after being 

 killed, and gravid cows much quicker. 



They should be approached from the lee side 



A. J. Guild, p. 232. quietly, and picked up as soon after being struck 

 as possible in order to secure them. 



Q. According to your experience, what percentage of animals that 

 are shot at are actually taken by the boats'? — A. 



Chas. u. Hay man, p. ]\i os t all of them; very few escape. Maybe out 

 43 °- of the whole year's catch of a couple of thousand 



a dozen may sink. It is a rare occurrence that they sink. 



I do not think we got over one-half that we killed and wounded. 

 Have seen six out of seven killed sink and were 

 Jas. Harvard, p. 328. i ost before we could get to them. This happened 

 last year in a boat I was in. 



All fur- seals sink rapidly after being killed, and females heavy with 



young go down soonest; a great deal depends on 



Norman Hodgson, p. t j ie way a sea i j s s ] 10 ^ however. 



367 • If the seal be shot with the head down, as in 



the act of diving, its momentum sends it under for a moment or two, 



when it will quickly rise to the surface and float until the air in its 



body escapes, which generally occupies anywhere from five to ten 



minutes. A seal shot with its head up almost always sinks instantly. 



