524 ALASKAN HERD. 



Q. Is it your opinion, if sealing continues unrestricted, that they 



will soon be exterminated 1 ? — A. Yes, sir; they will 



Chas. Lutjens, p. 459. get less and less, and will soon be exterminated 



if all sealing is not stopped in the Bering Sea and 



on the islands. 



I think that all pelagic seal-hunting in Bering Sea -should be 

 stopped, or the seal will soon become extermi- 

 Jas. McEeen, p. 267. nated. 



Q. Do you think it is absolutely necessary to protect the cows in the 

 Bering Sea to keep them from being exterminated? — A. I do. 



Alex. McLean, p.m. XT C ^, ** lt .f» n n A ec ®S a ? t0 Pr0t ?. Ct ^ em ? ^ 

 North Pacific? — A. That is a question that should 



be international. 



Q. What I want to get at is, is it your idea that in order to protect 

 and keep up this supply of young seals that it is necessary not only to 

 protect them in the Bering Sea but to protect the cows as they are in 

 the North Pacific, Hearing the ground, or as they are coming out? — A. 

 Yes, sir; in the way it is here, the Pacific Ocean is a large ocean. The 

 seals are spread all over, and it would be impossible to go to work and 

 exterminate them from these waters to decrease them as long as they 

 keep them out of the Bering Sea. That is where the body of the seals 

 get into. For 40 miles within the passage they can not handle the seals 

 at all, because you don't see them. They are traveling too much. You 

 may see a herd once in a while, but very rarely. 



Q. Whereabouts in the North Pacific do you find them the most 

 numerous? — A. You can start from San Francisco, and you carry them 

 all the way up from the time you leave here until you get up to those 

 passes; all the way up 150 miles to 30 miles in the shore. In some 

 places you come in closer than that, according to the point of land that 

 you come into. 



Q. In your view of the case they should be protected in the Bering 

 Sea all the season? — A. Yes, sir; I think it would 



Alex. McLean, p.m. be advisable to protect them in the Bering Sea 

 altogether. 



Q. You are an old sealer; perhaps you know some things that I don't. 

 If there is anything you think of that is interesting I should like to 

 know it. — A. No, sir; I should like to give my opinion as far as it is 

 right, and beyond that 1 would not do it. I am interested in sealing, 

 and want to protect the seals. I wish to say that I would like to see 

 the seal islands protected from raids, and also the Bering Sea. 



Daniel McLean, p. 444. Q. Do you think it is absolutely necessary to 

 protect the cows in the Bering Sea? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. It is also necessary to protect them in the Pacific? — A. The Pa- 

 cific is a large ocean, and they do not go in large bands. They go 

 singly and in pairs, so that there is not a chance to kill so many of 

 them in the ocean. In the Bering Sea they are in bands, and they go 

 onto the islands and are concentrated in a small place. * * * 



Q. Do you know of anything else that would be interesting in regard 

 to the question? — A. I think the seals ought to be protected. I think 

 the custom-house should not clear any ships either in the British Col- 

 onies or the United States for sealing in the Bering Sea; that is, if they 



