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DESTRUCTION OF PREGNANT FEMALES. 

 Page 207 of The Case. 



We caught about 185 seals, mostly females in Chas. Adair, p. 400. 

 young, and we killed them while they were asleep 

 on the water. 



Most of the seal killed by me have been fe- Akatoo, p. 237. 

 males with pup. 



A large majority of seal taken on the coast and in Bering Sea are 

 cows, with pup in the Pacific Ocean and with milk 



in Bering Sea. A few young male seal are taken Peter Anderson, p. 313. 

 in the North Pacific Ocean from 2 to 3 years old. 



Have never taken an old bull in the North Pacific Ocean in my life. 

 A few yearlings have been taken by me, but not many. 



We sealed along the coast and captured 154; S. Andritius, p. 314. 

 most all of them were pregnant females. 



About 90 per cent of those saved are females, Chas. Avert/, p. 218. 

 and the greater number with young. 



Most all seal that I have killed have been pregnant cows. Have 

 taken a few male seals from 1 to 1 years old, I Mam AmJce 255 . 

 think. Have never killed an old bull. 



Q. What percentage of the cows you have taken were with pup? — 

 A. About 09 per cent of the cows taken were with 

 pup ; there may be one in a hundred that is either Geo. Ball, p. 482. 

 without pup or has had one. 



Most all the seals taken are females with pup. Johnny Baronovitch, p. 



276. 



Most of the seals taken by me have been female with pup. Never 

 killed but one old bull in my life. I have killed a 

 good many small bulls and a great many yearling Maurice Bates, p. 277. 

 seals, but never examined the latter as to sex. 



Seventy-five per cent of the seal taken on the Martin Benson, p. 405. 

 coast are cows with pup. 



We left Port Townsend in May and sealed south to Cape Flattery and 

 then went north along the coast until Ave came to 



Unimak Pass, and captured from three to four Bernhardt Bleidner, p. 

 hundred seals. Most all were females and had 315. 

 pups in them. I think fully two-thirds of all we 

 caught were females, and a few were bulls. * * * 



We secured 500 skins along the coast, most all of which were preg- 

 nant females. 



I have never killed any full grown cows on the coast that did not 

 have pups in them, and I have hunted all the way Bowa-chup p. 376. 

 from the Columbia liiver to Barclay Sound. 



