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After their snjonvn in the south, the first to repair to tlie northern roolcories are 

 the old bulls, arriving about the niidille of June. They await the cows, which fol- 

 low them towards the end of the same month. Yearlings and other non-breeding 

 seals arrive at any time later. The young are brought forth in the beginning of 

 July. 



It is sometimes stnted that the teuiales are in the habit ot leaving the rookeries 

 to catch tish wMthin 10 or 20 miles of the shore for the support of their young, but 

 the experienced authority on whose remarks these notes are founded is not of this 

 opinion. He has never found food inside the female fur-seal taken on the hauling 

 grounds. 



(Signed) M. pk Buxskn, 



Uer Majesty's Secretary of Letjation, 



ToKio, Xovemher 19, 1891. 



Mr. Wyndham to the Marquis of Salisbury. — {Reccired Norimbcr 31.) 



(No. 107. Commercial.) Rio dk Janeiro, October 27, IS9I. 



My Loko: With reference to your Lordship's Circular despatch No. 80 of the 10th 

 August last, and to my despatch No. Ill of the 25th Se])tember, on the subject of the 

 fur-seal fisheries of the Soutliern Hemisphere, I have the honour to transmit here- 

 with to your Lordsliip copy of a despatch which I have received from Her Majesty's 

 Consul at Rio Grande do Siil, in which he states that, having made inquires in both 

 States of his Consuhir district, he finds that no expeditions are sent thence to the 

 fisheries, and that nothing is known al)ont the conditions under which the fisheries 

 are carried out, or the habits of the seal itself. 

 I have, &c. 



(Signed) HuGii Wyndham. 



CONSUL HKAKNE TO IMI!. WYNDHAM. 



Rio Gkandk do Sul, October 14, 1891. 

 Sir: With reference to your despatch of the 9th September last resi)ecting certain 

 information with regard to the fur-seal fisheries of the Southern Hemisphere, 

 168 I have the honour to inform you that I have made inquiries in both States in 

 this Consular district, and find that no expeditions are sent hence to the fish- 

 eries, nor is anything known about the conditions under which fisheries are carried 

 out, or the habits of the seal itself. 

 I have, &c. 



(Signed) W. R. IIeaune. 



' Mr. Wyndham to the Marquis of Salisbury. — {Received October 22.) 



(No. 114.) " Uio TiY. .Ix^vAno, September 25,1891. 



My Lord: With reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 30 of the 10th ultimo, 

 desiring certain information respecting fur-seal life in the Southern Hemisphere, for 

 the use of the (lOverumont of Canada, and to my des]iatch No. 109 of the 9th instant 

 on the same subject, I have the honour to report to your Lordship that I have 

 received a note from the JNIinister of Foreign Affairs, in reply to my request for the 

 information desii'ed, in which he states, on the authority of the Minister of Marine, 

 that seal-fishing is unknown in Brazilian territorial waters, that no laws respecting 

 the same exist in Brazil, and that hitherto no vessel engaged in this trade has 

 touched at any Brazilian port. 

 I have, &c. 



(Signed) HuGK Wyndham. 



Mr. Palcnham to the Marquis of Salisbury. — (Receircd January IS, 1892.) 



(No. 51.) BtTENOS Ayres, December 22, 1891. 



My Lord: With reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 24 of the 10th August 

 on the subject of seals and seal fishery on the Argentine coast, I now have the 

 honour to inclose translation of the reply of the Minister of Foreign Aftairs to my 

 inquiry on the subject, whereof copy is likeAvise inclosed. 



