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which were cows iu milk. Several, as usual, reported wounded and 

 lost by the boats. The great superiority of the Indian spear evident. 

 Monday, August 31, captured by the U. S. S. Mohican 3:30 p. m.; no 

 hunting. 



And those we caught in the Bering Sea were Patrick Maroney, p. 464. 

 mostly all females with milk in their breasts. * * * 



The next season, 1890, we got on the way up between 100 and 200 

 seals, and then we entered the Bering Sea about the 18th or 19th of 

 July, and I caught 90 seals, mostly all females. * * * 



When we were in Bering Sea we hunted from 40 to 200 miles off the 

 seal islands. 



We caught a few seals in the Bering Sea and then were ordered out 

 and sent" back to Victoria. Those that were 

 caught in the Bering Sea were mostly females Henry Mason, p. 465. 

 and had had pups and were in milk. * * * 



About two-thirds of those caught in the Bering Sea were females 

 that had big teats and were giving milk. We 

 could tell that when we were skinning them, be- Wm. Mason, p. 466. 

 cause the milk would run out on the decks. 



We sealed around Unalaska, but did not go toward the Pribilof Is- 

 lands. We caught 1,900 seals, all of which were 

 captured in the sea, close to Unalaska; most all Moses, p. 310. 

 of them were cows in milk; but when we first en- 

 tered the sea we killed a few cows that had pups in them. * * * 

 That year we sealed east of the island and caught about 800 seals. I 

 do not know how far we were from the islands, for we could not see 

 them. The seals we caught were mostly cows with milk. 



I believe the majority of seals captured by 

 white hunters in Bering Sea are females in search Morris Moss, p. 342. 

 of food. 



I was sealing in the Bering Sea during July, August, and Septem- 

 ber, 1885 and 1886. I was cruising in the Bering 

 Sea around about the Pribilof Islands, and from mies Nelson, p. 469. 

 100 to 300 miles off. The principal portion of the 



cruising was between the Aleutian Islands and the Pribilof Islands. 

 One of the principal sealing grounds is off Bogoslof. 



We entered the Bering Sea the latter end of May, and caught about 

 700 seals in the Bering Sea, mostly all of them 

 being females in milk. I saw the milk flowing on John O'Brien, p. 470. 

 the deck when they were skinned. * * * I 



could not tell how far off we caught them from the seal islands, as I 

 did not know the distances. At that time there were lots of seals in 

 the water. 



After entering the sea we got one female with a very large pup, 

 which I took out alive and kept it for three or 

 four days, when it died, as it would not eat any- John Olsen, p. 471. 

 thing. All the others had given birth to their 

 young and their breasts were full of milk. 



