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Q. Of what sex are the seals taken by you or usually killed by hunt- 

 ing vessels in the North Pacific andBering Sea? — . 

 A. Cows altogether; nothing but cows. I never H. Harmsen, p. U2. 

 caught a bull in my life and I have got about 

 10,000 of them. 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific and Bering Sea? — A. Two-thirds of 

 them are females. Wm. Henson, p. 483. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have 

 taken were cows'? — A. Two-thirds, I should say. 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific and Bering Sea? — A. The seals that 

 I have taken were principally females. U a ndrm J ' Ho ff man > ?• 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have 

 taken were cows ? — A. About 95 per cent of them were cows. 



Q. Of what sex are the seals taken by you or usually killed by the 

 hunting vessels in the North Pacific or Bering 

 Sea? — A. Females. Gustave Isaacson, p.UO.. 



Q. What percentage of them are females? — A. 

 It is very seldom that you ever get hold of a male. 



Q. Of what sex are the seals taken by you or usually killed by hunt- 

 ing vessels in theNorth Pacific and Bering Sea? — 

 A. Females, principally. Frank Johnson, p. 441. 



Q. What percentage of them? For instance, if 

 you kill 100 seals, how many males would you get? — A. Perhaps two. 

 You strike a few bulls when you get further, say, towards the Aleu- 

 tian Islands. 



My experience has been that the sex of the seals usually killed by 

 hunters employed on vessels under my command, 

 both in the ocean and Bering Sea, were cows. I Jas. Kieman, p. 450. 

 should say that not less than 80 per cent of those 

 caught each year were of that sex. 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken 

 in the Pacific and Bering Sea?-A. Principally Chas _ Lutj 458 



females. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows? — A. 

 About 90 per cent. 



We caught about 400 or 500 seals before we got to the Bering Sea. I 

 don't know the precise number. They were bulls 

 and females mixed in, but the general run of them Wm. Mclsaac, p. 461. 

 were females. 



Q. Of what sex are the seals taken by you or usually killed by 

 hunting vessels in the North Pacific or Bering 

 Sea?— A. Principally females. ^Alexander McLean, p. 



Q. What would be your judgment as to the per- 

 centage? Out of a hundred that you kill, how many of them would 

 be females? — A. Say I would bring 2,000 seals in here. I may have 

 probably about 100 males ; that is a large average. 



