430 RESULTS. 



We left Victoria about May, going - north, and sealed all the way to 

 the Bering - Sea. We had about sixty before en- 

 Thos. Bradley, p. 406. tering the Bering Sea, nearly all of which were 

 females with young pups in them. 



The seal captured by us along the coast in 1890 were all gravid fe- 

 TT „ 01 _ males. I do not know the sex of those taken by 



Ilenrii Brown, p. 317. t -i ■ j.i i. • j.i J 



our Indians on the coast in that year. 



Wenry Brown, p. 318. Our last catch of seals ou the coast were almost 

 exclusively gravid females. 



I think more than one half the seals caught on the coast are cows 

 that have pups in them. Cows caught in the lat- 

 Peter Brown, p. 311. ter part of Slay and June have black pups iu 

 them, which we sometimes cut out and skin. 



Most all the seals that we shot and secured were females and had 

 Thos. Brown (No.i) p. youn g pups in them, and we would sometimes 



3l<j. ' skin them. * * * 



Commenced sealing off Cape Flattery and all 



the seals which we caught were pregnant females. 



We had 250 seals before entering the sea, the largest percentage ot 

 which were females, most of them having young 

 loT Brow " ^ No ' ^' pups in them. I saw some of the young pups 

 p ' ' taken out of them. 



On my last sealing cruise this spring we caught live seals; two of 

 them w T ere females and had pups in them; three 

 Lanrtis Callapa, p. 379. of them were young; and smaller seals and had 

 black whiskers. None but full-grown cows have 

 white whiskers, but young cows and young bulls have black whiskers. 

 About half of all the seals captured along the coast have white whis- 

 kers, and are cows with pups in them. Most all full-grown cows that 

 arc caught have pups in them. Once, late iu the season, I caught a 

 full grown barren cow with white whiskers. 



Majority of seals taken are females with young. We caught a large 

 number of pups in the early part of the season. 



Chas. Campbell, p. 2o(3. ])id ]mt takc particu l ar no tJce of the SCX. 



Jno. c. CantwcU,pA07. And that 75 per cent of seals shot in the North 

 Pacific Ocean are females heavy with young. 



About 85 per cent of my catch of seals along the coast of the North 

 Pacific were females, and most all of them were 



Jas. l. Carthcut, p. 409. cows in pup, and I used to kill most of them while 

 asleep on the wafer. 



Chas. Challall, p. 411. Most of the seals we killed going up the coast 

 were females heavy with pup. I think 9 out of 

 every 10 were females. 



