218 PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION. 



Effoctsofpeiag-tlie captains in command becominp* more and 



ic sealiug. 



more familiar with tlie habits, track, and feeding- 

 grounds of the migrating herd, are able to reach 

 the various points off the coast at the time when 

 the main body are at these localities, and harass 

 them incessantly on their way from the Faral- 

 lones to Bering Sea.-^ The effect of pelagic seal- 

 ing is briefly and truly summarized by Karp 

 Buterin, the native chief of St. Paul Island, in 

 these words: "Schooners kill cows, pups die, and 

 seals are gone."^ 



With such wasteful destruction the Alaskan 

 seal herd must either be soon exterminated, or 

 else a sufficient and full protection given from 

 the pernicious methods employed by open-sea 

 seal hunters. 



PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION. 

 OTHER SEAL HERDS. 



Destruction. The indiscriminate slaughter of seals in the 



waters of the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea can 

 not fail to produce a result similar to that 

 observed in the southern hemisphere, where the 

 fur-seals have, except at a few localities, become, 



> Report of Capt. C. L. Hooper to the Treasury Departuieut, 

 dated June 14, 1892, Vol. I, p. 499. 

 2 Vol. II, p. 103. 



