200 PELAGIC SEALING. 



Testimony ofgexes caii be determined/ as do also Mr. John 



British furriers. o t i 



J. Phelan^ and Mr. William WieiDert, both 

 experienced furriers. Mr. Alfred Fraser, a sub- 

 ject of Her Britannic Majesty, and a member of 

 the London firm of C. M. Lampson & Co., says: 

 "That he would have no difficulty whatever in 

 separating the skins of the 'Northwest' catch 

 from the skins of the 'Alaska' catch by reason 

 of the fact that they are the skins almost exclu- 

 sively of females." This fact that the Northwest 

 skins are so largely the skins of females is further 

 evidenced by the fact that in many of the early 

 sales of such skins they are classified in deponent's 

 books as the skins of "females."* 

 otiier British gjj. Greorp'o Badeii-Powell, one of the British 



testimony. ^ 



Bering Sea Commissioners, addressed a letter to 

 the London Times, which appeared in that paper 

 November 30, 1889, in which he says: "Their 

 (the Canadian sealers') catch is made far out at 

 sea, and is almost entirely composed of females." 

 On the 29th day of April, 1891, Mr. C. Haw- 

 kins, a subject of Her Britannic Majesty, 

 addressed a letter to the Marquis of Salisbury, 

 in which he states that "since about the year 

 1885 we have received in this country (England) 

 laro:e numbers of seal skins known in the trade 



1 Vol. II, p. 508. 



2 Vol. II, p. 519. 



3 Vol. II, p. 535. 

 " Vol. II, p. 558. 



