196 PELAGIC SEALING. 



Percentage lost states: ''I doii't think we 2'ot more than one seal 



of those killed. o 



out of six that we killed."^ Caleb Lindahl, a seal 

 hunter, says: "On an average a hunter gets one 

 seal out of four. I have known of poor hunters 

 loosing nine out of ten."^ Henry Mason, also a 

 seal hunter, says: "I do not think they would 

 get more than one seal out of every six or seven 

 they shot, and sometimes only one out of ten."^ 

 To these statements are added many others by 

 competent and experienced witnesses, which 

 may be found in the Appendix hereto aimexed.^ 

 When the estimate, therefore, is placed at sixty- 

 six seals unsecured out of every hundred killed 

 with fire arms, the probability is that the per- 

 centage lost is even more Certainly this per- 

 centage is constantly increasing, for the rapid 

 growth of the sealing fleet in the last two years 

 has increased the number of unskillful hunters, 

 and the constant hunting of the herd has made 

 the seals wilder each year than the year before.^ 

 icmaioTcaia!" ""^ Bcsidcs the great waste of life caused by the 

 present method of sealing, another feature of 

 pelagic hunting adds greatly to its destructive 

 effect upon the Alaskan seal herd, namely, the 



'(No. 1), Vol. II, p. 319. 

 2 Vol. II, p. 456. 

 3Vol. II, p. 465. 



"William Parker, Vol. II, p. 314; Olaf T. Kvani, Vol. II, p. 236; 

 William Mclsaac, Vol. II, p. 461; George Uslier, Vol. II, p. 291. 

 s'I'Uumas .Browu (No. 1), Vol. II, p. 319. 



