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with milk while we were skinning the seals.^" Destruction of 



nursing females. 



Richard Dolan, a seal hunter who was in Bering 

 Sea in 1885, says: ''I saw the milk flowing on 

 the deck when we skinned tliem."^ Capt. L. Gr. 

 Shepard, of the United States Eevenue Marine 

 Service, who seized several vessels in Bering 

 Sea in 1887 while they were engaged in sealing, 

 states that he saw milk flowing from the dead 

 carcasses of seals lying on the decks of vessels a 

 hundred or more miles from the Pribilof Islands.^ 

 Mr. Robert H. McManus, a British subject and 

 resident of Victoria, British Columbia, made a 

 sealing voyage in 1891 in Bering Sea on the 

 Canadian schooner Otto as a newspaper corre- 

 spondent. During the voyage he kept a journal 

 of events, which he has embodied in his deposi- 

 tion, hereto appended, which contains his views of 

 the matters which took place.* In an entry made 

 August 29, he states the total catch of the day 

 was seventeen seals, "greater proportion cows in 

 milk; horrid sight, could not stay the ordeal out 

 till all were flayed."* He subsequently adds: 

 " It may be safely asserted that over three-fourths 

 of the catch of forty-eight vv^ere cows in milk ; 



1 Vol. II, p. 345. 



2 Vol. II, p. 419. 



3 Vol. II, p. 189. 

 <Vol. II, p. 337. 



