456 RESULTS. 



Nearly all the seals killed in the water before 

 Wm. Hermann, p. 446. the middle of June are cows in pup, and after that, 

 mothers giving milk. 



While in Bering Sea we cruised around the Pribilof Islands in all 

 directions, often coming within view of them, but 

 Norman Hodgson, p. 367. never landing or making any attempt to do so. 

 The proportion of females taken to males was 

 about 70 per cent, more than two thirds of these being nursing cows, 

 while the remainder were two-year-olds and yearlings. On first enter- 

 ing the sea an occasional pregnant cow would be taken, but this was 

 uncommon. Of the males taken in the Bering Sea the numbers of year- 

 lings and very young bachelors was about equal; no bulls were ever 

 taken. 



We arrived in the sea sometime in July. When we first entered 



Bering Sea, we went direct to St. Mathews Islands. 



0. Holm, p. 3G8. As near as I know, seal were taken last year from 



GO to 100 miles from the Pribilof Islands. Most 



all the seals taken in Bering Sea were females with milk. But one old 



ball was taken, and two young males, but no females with pup. 



And that those that I secured in the Bering Sea were nearly all 



females that had given birth to their young and 



Alfred Irving, p. 386. were in milk. Our vessel captured about 400 



seals at a distance of about 100 miles from the 



Pribilof Islands, most all of which were cows in milk. 



I have killed female seals with milk 200 miles from the Pribilof 

 Victor Jackobson p. Islands. I think of the seals taken by me that 

 328. three in five are females, and nearly all with pup. 



We captured about S00 seals at a distance from the rookeries on the 



Pribilof Islands of from 20 miles to 200 miles; 



Jas.Jamieson. p. 329. about three-fourths of the catch in the sea waa 



female seals in milk, the balance consisting of 



yearlings and male seals. 



Nearly our whole catch in the Bering Sea, after the first of July 



each year, were females, and nearly all of them 



Jas.Jamieson, p. 331. in milk, and had evidently given birth to their 



young but a short time before. The milk would 



run out on the deck as we skinned them. 



We entered the sea and caught about 1,000 in there. We sealed all 

 over on this side of the Bering Sea, sometimes 

 Jas. Kean, p. 448. being over 150 miles off the seal islands, and 

 sometimes we were closer. I did not pay any at- 

 tention to the proportion of females, but I know we skinned a 

 great many that were giving milk, because the milk would run from 

 their breasts onto the deck when they were being skinned. We killed 

 mother seals in milk over 100 miles from the seal islands. We gener- 

 ally shoot them when they are asleep on the water. * * * 



We caught between 300 and 400 seals on the coast, and GOO in the 

 Bering Sea. We sealed on the American side of the Bering Sea 

 around the Pribilof Islands, anywhere from 10 to 150 miles off. The 

 capture of 1800 was about the same in proportion to sex as the year 

 before. 



