DESTRUCTION OF PREGNANT FEMALES. 445 



killed a portion of thein in the Bering Sea. We killed one large bull 

 that I recollect, and the rest were nearly all females with pup or mothers 

 giving milk. 



Most of the seals taken are females with pup. Out of 111 seals 

 last year I killed but 3 bulls. A very few vear- 

 lings have been taken by me. A few male seal 3 ^ sllua SUcUand > P- 

 have been taken by me from 2 to 4 years old. 



Q. What percentage of the cows you have Gustave Sundvall,p,480. 

 taken were with pup ? — A. Well, I should judge 

 about two-thirds, anyhow. 



We coinmenced sealing as soon as we got outside of the cape, and 

 captured about 270 seals along up the coast. 

 Most of the seals caught were pregnant females, John A. Swain, p. 350. 

 and when we would skin them the milk would 



run out of them on the deck. We began sealing off the Columbia Elver, 

 and then sealed northward up the coast to Bering Sea, and captured 

 about 320 seals in the North Pacific Ocean, most all females, and nearly 

 all had young pups in them. 



Most of the seal taken by me were cows with m. ThOcaiuiaynahicee, p. 



pup. * * * 269. 



A few male seal have been taken, from 1 to 4 years old. But very 

 few old bulls have ever been taken by me. Have killed a few yearlings 

 every year. 



The catch that season along the coast was 90 per cent females, 

 and the greater proportion of them were females 



in pup. * * * In 1891 I went out in the ***** W ' Thom P 80n > 

 schooner G. H. White. We left here about the 5th 



of February, and sealed along the coast and did not enter the Bering 

 Sea that season. We caught about 438 seals, and a large proportion of 

 them were females with young ones in them. 



Most of the seals taken on this coast are cows with young. * * * 

 Quite a large number of yearlings are taken, most Charlie m ksatan, p. 

 of which are females. 270. 



The seals taken by me have been females mostly with pup. Have 

 never killed a bull in my life. A few yearlings 

 are taken, all of which are females. Peter Trearsheit, p. 271. 



Among the Indian crews of the Vancouver Island sealing vessels, I 

 have seen the skins of unborn pup seal; being of 

 no commercial value, the crews were allowed to Francis Tuttle, p. 487. 

 keep them. These unborn pups have been taken 



from female seals killed while coming up the west coast of North 

 America. 



About half the seals caught along the coast are cows that have white 

 whiskers and have pups in them. A good many 

 young males and females, from 1 to 2 years old John Tysum,p.39i. 

 are captured. They all have black whiskers. I 



have never killed any old bulls along the coast, but have killed a very 

 few large cows late in the season that were barren. 



