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being secured; one is by wounding it so that, Waste of life. 

 though it still retains vitality enough to escape 

 from the hunter, it subsequently dies of its in- 

 juries; the other is by the sinking of the seal, 

 killed outright, before the boat can be brought 

 alongside and the carcass seized by the hunter. 



Of the first of these means of loss Dr. Allen Woundiug. 

 says: "Those only wounded, whether fatally or 

 otherwise, dive and escape capture. The less . 

 severely wounded may, and in many cases doubt- 

 less do, recover from their wounds, but in the 

 nature of things many others must die of their 

 injuries. There is a wide range of chances 

 between an instantaneously fatal or disabling 

 shot and a slight wound from which the victim 

 may readily recover, with obviously a large 

 proportion of them on the fatal side of the divid- 

 ing line."^ This is self-evident when the fact is 

 taken into consideration that the boat is in almost 

 constant motion, and the mark is the small head 

 of a seal among the waves thirty, forty, fifty, ^ or, 

 when a" rifle is used, even a hundred yards ^ from 

 the hunter. Four other conditions also modify 

 this possibility of loss; first, the state of the 

 weather, for if the water is rough the boat and 



1 Article by Dr. Allen, Part III, Vol. I, p. 409. 



2 T. T. Williams, Vol. II, p. 494. 

 3 T.T.Williams, Vol. II, p. 503. 



