212 PELAGIC SEALING. 



Destruction of this at a distance of two liimdrecl miles from the 



nursiug females. t-, tt- tt n 



rookeries."^ And Mr. Francis R. Kmg-Hall, son 

 of Sir William King-Hall, K. C. B., Admiral in 

 the British Navy, who also was on the Otto dur- 

 ing- this voyage, makes substantially the same 

 statements.^ Tlmt a pup is entirely dependent 

 upon its mother for the first three or four months 

 of its life, and also that a female will not suckle 

 any pup save her own, has already been stated. 

 Dead paps on ^g r^ rcsult it is evident that if the mother is 



the rookeries. 



killed her pup will die of starvation; and of this 

 fact the evidence presented is unquestionable. 

 When sealing vessels began to enter Bering Sea 

 in pursuit of the seal herd (1884-85) at that 

 same period dead pup seals on the rookeries 

 ■ first drew the attention of the residents of the 

 Pribilof Islands. ^ 



Professor Dall, who visited the rookeries in 

 No dead pups 1880, savs : "There were not in 1880 suffi- 



prior to lb84. ■' "^ 



cient dead pups scattered over the rookeries 

 to attract attention, or form a feature on the 

 rookery."^ Captain Bryant, who was on the 

 islands from 1870 to 1877, says, "A dead pup 

 was rarely seen."^ Mr. J. H. Moulton, who was 



1 Vol. II, p. 338. 



2 Vol, II, p. 333. 



3Nicoli Krukoff, Vol. II, p. 132. 



"Vol. II, p. 23. 



6VoLII,p.8. 



