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take a seal then you take two for one. You take the pup with them. 

 That is, when it is a female. This is before we go into the sea. I have 

 been into the sea for several years. For the last two years I have not 

 gone in there — that is, while this restriction act has been put on. I 

 have not interfered with the business. 



Q. Your experience is that all of the adult females that you shoot 

 during the forepart of the season up to July are with pup? — A. You 

 may take it all the way from April, May, and June; from Ap>ril all the 

 female seals that yon kill are with pup. 



Q. Up until about the 1st of July? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Until they go into the Bering Sea? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What percentage of the cows taken are with pup? — A. The 

 Daniel McLean, p. 444. ^males are mostly all with pup-that is, up until 

 the 1st of July. 



We came down each year to the coast of Oregon, then went along 



up the coast to the Bering Sea. I do not recol- 



Thomas Madden, p. 462. lect the exact number of seals we caught in 18S8, 



1SS9, and 1890, but last year we caught about 150 



along the coast. I did not pay much attention to the sex of the seals, 



but 1 seen lots of little pups taken out of them. 



We sailed up the coast and caught a few seals, until we got to the Bering 



Sea. We caught 1,100 seals, nearly all of which 



James Maloy, p. 463. were caught in the Bering Sea. We caught them 



around St. George Island. I think out of the 1,100 



we caught there were COO females. Out of that 000 there were over 



400 that had pups inside of them, and we threw them all overboard. 



Most of the seals taken by me have been females 



Edward Maitland, p. with pup. I have never taken a big bull in my 



284 - life. Have killed small bulls and some yearlings. 



About half of the seals killed by me, I think, were cows with pup. 



Have never killed an old bull, but have killed a 

 Charles Martin, p. 297. few yearlings in my life. Never examined the 



latter as to sex. 



Patrick Maroney, p. The biggest part of my year's catch off the coast 

 464. were females with pups in them. 



We sailed from Victoria on the 8th of April, and sealed along the 



coast up to Akutan Pass. We caught about 300 seals in that vicinity. 



Mostly all were females and a great many of them 



Henry Mason, p. 464. had pups in them. We cut the seals open and 



saw the young inside. 



In 1890 I went sealing in the schooner Argonaut. She sailed from 

 Victoria about the 8th of April, and sealed along 



Henry Mason, p. 465. the coast up to the pass in Bering Sea. We 

 caught about 350 seals that year. 



Most of the seals we caught in the North Pacific were females. A 

 good many of them also had imps inside. 



