454 RESULTS. 



We entered the sea along about the 1st of May and caught between 

 600 and 700 seals from 30 to 150 miles off the seal 

 Thos. Brown, No. 2, p. [ s \. cm( \^ am i f our ()U t of live were females in milk. 



I saw the milk running" on the deck when we 



407. 



skinned them. 



Have killed cows with milk about 60 miles off 

 Chas. Campbell, p. 25G. thePribilof Islands. A few old bulls were killed 

 by me last season. 



And that 80 per cent of seals shot in Bering Sea from July 1 to Sep- 

 tember 15 are females, most of which have given 



John C.Cantwell, p. 407. birth to their young and are mostly caught while 

 feeding at various distances from land. 



Chas. Chailall, p. 411. At least 7 out of 8 seals caught in the Bering 

 Sea were mothers in milk. 



While in the sea I caught a great many cow seals that were giving 

 r . „ Qn milk. Most all the seals we caught in the sea 



Ctrcus Jim, p. 360. . . .,, ° 



were giving milk. 



In 1887, about the 1st of June, I went into the Bering Sea in my own 

 schooner, the Lottie, and hunted about 60 miles 

 Jas. Claplanhoo, p.382. off the islands and secured about 700 seals, most 

 all of which were cows in milk. These cows had 

 milk in their breasts, but had no pups in them. I returned to the Be- 

 ring Sea in my own boat, the Lottie, in 1880, and also in 1891, and 

 sealed all the way from 100 to 180 miles from the St. George and St. 

 Paul islands. The catch of these two years were of about the same 

 character as those caught in 18S7, and were mostly females that had 

 given birth to their young and were in milk. 



We entered the sea through the Unimak Pass, and captured therein 

 7 . ., „ qo1 about 40 seals, most all of which had milk in 



Louis Culler, p. u-Jl. . , . , ' 



their breasts. 



We left Victoria in January and went south to Cape Flattery and 



Cape Blanco, sealing around there about two 



John Ballon, p. 417. months, when we went north, sealing all the way 



up to the Bering Sea. * * * We 



entered the sea to the best of my recollection about June, and caught 



about 1100 seals in there, two-thirds of which were mother seals with 



their breasts full of milk. I saw the milk flowing on the deck when 



we skinned them. 



John Dal ion, p. 418. The waters were full of them at that time. We 



caught them from 50to00 milesoff the seal islands. 



We only got three seals with pups in them in the Bering Sea. Most 



all of them were females that had given birth to 



A Ifred Dardean, p. 322. their young on the islands, and the milk would 



run out of the teats on the deck when we would 



skin them. We caught female seals in milk more than 100 miles off the 



Pribilof Islands. 



Frank Davis, p. 383. But the seals I caught in Bering Sea were most 



all cows in milk. 



