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gaunt or starved seals. Occasionally a dead pup was found that had 

 been crushed to death by the bulls iu their encounters with each 

 other. 



Up to 1884 there were never enough dead pups on the rookeries to 



cause any remark. Occasionally one would be 



Jno. Armstrong, p. 2. trampled to death by the fighting bulls, but the 



loss was almost nothing until the marine hunters 



began their work, and it grew to be quite noticeable before I left the 



islands. 



A dead pup was rarely seen, the dead being a small fraction of 1 per 



,-,, ,, , o cent to the whole number of pans. 1 do not think 



I lues. l>> ant, p.o. , ., T . T 1 L „„ , , 



while I was there 1 saw in any one season fifty dead 

 pups on the rookeries, and the majority of dead pups were aloug the 

 shore, having been killed by the surf. 



During the two sealing seasons I was on the islands I only saw a 



S N Buvnitsky p 21. ve1 ^ feW dead P U P S ' and tllCSe had beeU k * illed h ? 

 • the larger seals crushing them. I have never 



seen a pup that was starved to death, or which had been abandoned 



by its mother. 



There were not in 1880 sufficient dead pups scattered over the 

 rookeries to attract attention or to form a feature 

 W, H. Doll, p. 23. ou the rookery, 



I have no recollection of ever having seen a dead pup on the breed- 

 ing grounds, but I have seen a considerable 

 Sam' I Falconer, p. 161. number of silver-gray pups — that is, those that 

 have learned to swim — which had been killed by 

 being dashed against the rocks by the surf. 



During the time I was on the islands I only saw a very few dead 



pups on the rookeries, but the number in 1884 



jr. A. (Hidden, p. no. was slightly more than in former years. I never 



noticed or examined dead pups on the rookeries 



before 1884, the number being so small. 



In performing my official duty I frequently visited the breeding 

 rookeries, and during my entire stay on the island 



Louis L'immel, p. 174. I never saw more than 400 dead pups on all the 

 rookeries. 



But very few dead pups were ever seen on the rookeries until the seal- 

 ing schooners began to come in the water around 



Jac. Koichooten, p. 131. the island, and they have increased more and 

 more since 1888. 



I never saw but a few dead pups on the rookeries until the schooners 

 came into the sea and shot the cows when they 



Nicoli Krukoff, p. 132. went out to feed, and then the dead pups began to 

 increase on the rookeries. 



