444 RESULTS. 



that in taking the number of adults above mentioned there were actu- 

 ally destroyed near 10,000 seals. 



Jack Siika, p. 268. Most of the seals taken are cows with young. 



A few male seals are taken, their ages being from one to four years. 

 A few yearlings are taken. A very few old bulls have ever been taken 

 by me ; the last three or four years have taken but three old bulls. 



Most of the seals taken by me are females with pup. Never killed 

 but one old bull in my life. Have killed but a 



Thomas Skoul, p. 300. few yearlings and never looked to see if they were 

 male or female. The young males killed by me 

 were between one and three years old. 



I think three females with pup out of every ten killed. I kill lots of 

 yearling seals, but never examined them as to 



Geo. Skultka, p. 290. sex. Never shoot any old bulls, although I have 

 seen a good many. 



We sailed from here on the Flying Mist on the 17th day of April, 



1871, and caught altogether on that voyage about 



Jas. Sloan, p. ill. 875 seals, of which a large majority were either 



females with pups or with their breasts full of 



milk. I saw it flowing on the deck when we were skinning them. * * * 



Went to the Okhotsk Sea and sealed there about two months. We 



got there some 500 seals, of which more than one-half were females, and 



the most of them had pups in them. 



I am informed by our London sales agent, and believe, that nearly 

 Leon Sloss v 92 or Quite nine- tenths of the Victoria catch is com- 



' prised of females. 



Fred Smith, p. 349. A very large majority of the seal taken in the 



North Pacific Ocean are cows with pup. 



Most of the seals taken are females with young. Very few males are 

 taken on the coast. I have taken 600 seals in 



Wm. H. Smith, p. 478. one season and only 3 male seals were among them. 

 A few yearlings are taken, mostly females. 



We left San Francisco in February, and fished all the way up to 



Kadiak Island. We caught about 475 seals and 



E. w. Soron, p. 479. about 40 otters. To the best of my judgment the 



greatest portion of these were cows heavy with 



young. We could see the milk running out of their teats when they 



were skinned. I saw pups inside of the seals that we cut, and we 



saved some of them and fed them. 



We left here with the City of San Diego in February of 1888 and 



arrived in the Bering Sea in June, 1888. As soon 



Cyrus Stephens, p. 479. as we got into the ocean we commenced shooting 



seals and continued shooting all the way up to 



the Aleutian Islands. The seals became more plentiful as we were 



going north. We caught about 050 seals during that voyage. We 



