RESULTS. 201 



as Korthwest skins, the same liavino^ been taken ^ ^^^^®^" i^ritish 



' o testimouy. 



in the open sea, and, from appearances that are 



unmistakable to the initiated, are exclusively the 



skins of female seals pregnant."^ 



And the Canadian Minister of Marine and Cnnadian testi- 

 mouy. 



Fisheries, to whom the letter was referred, states 

 ''that the testimony produced by Mr. Hawkins 

 in this coimection is quite in accord with the 

 information hitherto obtained."^ In the Cana- 

 dian Fisheries Report of 1886 the following 

 statement appears: ''There were killed this 

 year so far from forty to fifty thousand fur-seals, 

 which have been taken by schooners from San 

 Francisco and Victoria. The greatest number 

 were killed in Bering Sea, and were nearly all 

 cows or female seals." ^ And again in the said 

 report for 1888 appears the statement that the 

 fact can not be denied "that over sixty per cent 

 of the entire catch of Bering Sea is made up of 

 female seals."* Rear- Admiral Hotliam, Royal 

 Navy, in a dispatch to the British Admiralty, 

 dated September 10, 1890, states that he per- 

 sonally saw Capt. C. Cox, of the schooner Sajp- 

 phire^ Captain Petit, of the schooner Mary Taylor, 

 Captain Hackett, of the schooner Annie Seymour, 



1 BritisL. Blue Book. U. S. No. 3 (1892), C-6635, p. 5. 

 2Britisli Blue Book, U. S. No. 3 (1892), C-6635, p. 75. 

 3 Page 267. 



■* Report of tlie Dei)artraeat of Fisheries, Doiniuiou of Canada 

 (1888), p. 240 



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