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tliey are not more shv. Tlie female is always Reason preg- 

 nant females are 

 inclined to be sleepy. The male is always on taken. 



tlie Avatcli."^ Capt. J. D. McDonald, owner and 

 commander of the sealing schooner Adventure 

 who hunts from San Francisco to Kadiak, says: 

 "Most of the seals taken by me have been 

 females with puj);" giving- as a reason that the 

 female seals are easier to kill than the males.^ It 

 is evident, therefore, that the female seal, wlieii 

 pregnant, is much more exposed to danger than 

 the male,^ and this fact is also noted by the Indian 

 hunters along the coast.* 



After the 1st of July the cows are nearly all uu^srariSies.''* 

 at the rookeries, and having given birth to their 

 young they go into the water in search of food, 

 in order that they may be able to. supply their 

 offspring with nourishment.^ And as has been 

 shown, they often go from one hundred to two 

 hundred miles from the islands on these excur- 

 sions.^ It is while absent from the rookeries 

 feeding that they fall a prey to the ])elagic seal 

 hunter.^ Rear-Admiral Sir M. Culme-Se}"mour, 



• British Blue Book, U. S. No. 3 (1892), C-6635, p. 184. See also 

 James Sloan, A^ol. II, p. 477 ; Isaac Liebes, Vol. II. p. 454. 



2 Vol. II, p. 266. 



3 British Blue Book, U. S. No. 3, 1892, C-6635, p. 184. 



< Charlie W^ank, Vol. II, p. 273; James Unatajmi, Vol. IT, p. 272; 

 Simeon Chin-koo-tin, Vol. II, p. 256. 



^ Ante, -p. 115. 



«^«<c,p. 116. 



'' Charles Chalall, Vol. II, p. 411 ; Peicr Brown, Vol. II, p. 377-378; 

 John Fyle, Vol. II, p. 429; Henry Brown, Vol. II, p. 317-318.^ 



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