DESTRUCTION OF PREGNANT FEMALES. 433 



We left Victoria the latter end of January, and went south, to Cape 

 Blanco, sealiug around there two or three months, 

 when we started north to the Bering Sea, sealing Richard Dolan, p. 418. 

 all the way up. We had between 200 and 300 



seals before entering the sea, a great many of them being females with 

 pups in them. 



My information and observation is that a very large proportion of 

 those killed along the coast and at sea from Ore- 

 gon to the Aleutian Islands are female seals with , 9{ f as ' U ' Dm 9 la88 > P- 

 pups ; I think not less than 95 per cent. 



The Indians left their homes in March and remained away until May. 

 Their hunting lodges were on some small islands 

 outside of Dundas Island. From what they tell Wm. Duncan, p. 279. 

 me the majority of seals taken by them have been 

 females with young. 



I have caught 9 seals this year 5 of which had 

 pups in them; the small ones did not have pups Elldbush, p. 385. 

 in them. * * * 



In the months of January and February the pups in the cows are so 

 small that you will not notice them unless you cut the belly open. All 

 full-grown cows that I have killed along the coast had pups in them, 

 and have never killed but one that had given birth to their young and 

 were in milk, and have no recollection of having killed a barren cow. 

 The younger ones do not have pups in them, and are about one-half 

 male and one-half female. 



We went north to the Bering Sea, sealing all the way up, and got 

 110 seals before entering the sea. Most of them 



were cows, nearly all of which had pups in them. Geo. Fairchild, p. 423. 

 We took some of the pups alive out of the bodies 

 of the females. 



Most all of the females taken are with young, or F. F. Fccny, p. 220. 

 mothers. 



There were cow seals with pup among the seals that I have taken, 

 but I don't know how many. I have never taken c/) . ,. Fran j c „ 2 80 

 an old bull in my life. 



I think the seals taken by me are about half females with pup, and 

 the rest are one and two year old males and year- r „ ,. 7 , 7 . , OQA 



,. . , ,,*' ,. . v Luke I'rank, p. JLI4. 



lings; never examined the yearlings as to sex. 



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

 A. All that are killed in the Pacific are with 



pup, and those that are killed in the Bering Sea ^Luther T. Franklin, p. 

 have been delivered of pups on the islands and are 

 with milk. 



Q. In your experience, while you were hunting seals, nearly all the 

 seals that you killed were cows and nearly all r , _ _ 

 had pups?-A. Nearly all the cows that were m nuher T ' FranU ™>*>> 

 killed in the Pacific were with pup, and conse- 

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