SEAL LIFE ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 269 



Q. What sex are tbe seals taken by you or usually killed by hunting 

 vessels in the North Pacific or Bering Seat A. Mostly females. The 

 > bluest percentage, I think, are females. 



(,). What percentage of them are cows? A. I couldn't tell you. 



Q. Out of 100 seals that you would catch ordinarily what part of 

 them would be cows? A. I am under oath, and I could not tell you 

 exactly. All I can say is the greater portion of them. (Charles H. 

 Hogman.) 



Think the seals taken by me have been about equally divided between 

 females and males. Have taken a number of yearlings and some 2 and 

 3 year old males. Have never killed an old bull. (Henry Haldane.) 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific and Bering Sea! A. Two-thirds of them are females. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows? A. 

 Two-thirds, I should say. (William Henson.) 



Q. Do you know of what sex that you have taken in the Pacific and 

 Bering Sea? A. The seals that I have taken were principally females. 



Q. What percentage of them are females! A. It is very seldom that 

 you ever get hold of a male. (Gustave Jsaacman.) 



My experience has been that the sex of the seals usually killed by 

 hunters employed on vessels under my command, both in the ocean and 

 Bering Sea, were cows. I should say that not less than 80 per cent of 

 those caught each year were of that sex. (James Kiernan.) 



W T e caught about 400 or 500 seals before we got to Bering Sea. I 

 don't know the precise number. They were bulls and females mixed 

 in, but the general run of them were females. (William Isaac.) 



Q. Of what sex are the seals taken by you or usually killed by hunt- 

 ing vessels in the North Pacific or Bering Sea? A. Principally females. 



Q. What would be your judgment as to the percentage! Out of 100 

 that you kill, how many of them would be females! A. Say I would 

 bring 2,000 seals in here, I may have probably about 100 males; that 

 is a large average. (Alexander McLean.) 



Q. What percentage of them are cows ! Suppose you catch 100 seals, 

 how many males would you have among them! A. About 10. The 

 seals killed by me were about half males and half females; have killed 

 but one old bull in my life. I have killed quite a number of yearling 

 seals, but never examined them as to sex. (Frederick. Mason.) 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific and Bering Sea! A. Mostly females. 



(^. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows! A. I 

 should judge about 90 per cent. (Frank Moreau.) 



I can not give the exact estimate of the sex, but I know that a large 

 portion of them are females. (Niles Nelson.) 



In going up the coast to Uuimak Pass we caught about 400 seals, 

 mostly females with young, and put their skins on board the Danube, 

 an English steamboat, at Alatack Bay, and after we got into Bering 

 Sea we caught 220. We had 200 at the time the lieutenant ordered us 

 out of the sea, the remainder we caught after. (John Olsen.) 



We began sealing off Cape Flattery and captured about 300 seals 

 along the coast, most all of which were females and yearlings. We did 

 not capture over 50 males all told on this voyage. About 90 per cent 



