SEAL LIFK ON THE PKIBILOF ISLANDS. 



N\ e sailed from \ ictoria. British Columbia, and bore due north to 

 lU'i'inii' Sen. When we arrived there we had some 7.~> to SO seals, the 

 greater part <>f \vhieh were females, some of which had pups in them. 

 . Ian.es Kennedy. 



Mo>r of ih' seaN taken by me were females \viih pup: have taken a 

 few male seals from 1 lo I \ears old. A very few yearlings have been 

 killed by me. mostly females. ,.Mike !s.et huxlurk. . 



Those taken in i'.eiinu' Sea were nearly all mother seals, in milk, that 

 had left their yoiin^ and were in seareh of food, i. lames Kiernan.) 



Most all seals killed by me have been cows. Have not 



killed a bnli seal for three years. 1 have taken a few yearlings, mostly 

 females. .'.John K<>\\ ineet. ) 



All the seals which 1 have seen killed were females, and the majority 

 of the>e were pregnant cows. lOlaf Kvam. 



Mo>t all seals that I have taken were cows witli pup. A few male 

 seals have been taken by me from 1 to L* years old. ((leor^e Lacheek.) 



A <^'ood many have pups in them, and when the boats come aboard 

 loaded with seals, after they ^'ot through skinning them they would 

 have a \}\g pile of pups on deck, (.lames Latlin.) 



We had a 'ood catch, having taken 1. 100 skins, more than 1 .000 of 

 which we secured on the coast. Of the latter more than 7-"> per cent- 

 were femah' pelts, and of tiiese about <)<> ]>er cent were taken Iroin 

 pregnant cows. .lames I'.. Lennan.) 



Of all t he seals captured by me about one- ha If of them. 1 think, were 

 cows with pups in them, and it is very seldom that I have ever caught 

 a full -.uTou n eow that was barren or did not have a pup in her: nor 

 have I. in my Ion ^ experience, caught a co\\ that was in milk, or that 

 had recently .u'iven birth to her youni^'. i seldom ever kill an old bull, 

 for there are but very few of them that mingle with the herd along the 

 coast. (.James Lighthouse.) 



In the year 1<SS."> tioo fur seals were caught during the month of March 

 off the I-'arallon Islands :( California ;. In subsequent years we have had 

 to go farther north each year in order to secure a good spring catch. 

 My experience has been that fully t>0 per cent of all seals taken were 

 females, and of these two thirds were mothers in milk. ( K. W. Little 

 John.) 



1 know that a large proportion of the seals taken were mothers in 

 pup or mothers giving milk, but I paid no particular attention to the 

 percentage. (William II. Long.) 



On my last trip this year, when hunting seals oil' the cape, I caught 

 10 >eaN. .""> of which had pups in them: the rest of them were from 1 to 

 "2 years old, part male and part female. I think that fully one-half of 

 the seals caught along the, coast are full grown females with pups ill 

 them. We >ometimes catch a few medium sized males, the rest being 

 younger ones, both male and female. (Thomas Lowe.) 



( t ). What percentage of the cows von have taken were with pup? 

 A. About 70 percent, I should say. (Charles Lutjens.) 



Most of the seals taken were females with pup. A few male seals were 



