

SEAL LIFE ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. '297 



Uled, ages ranging from! to r> years. One old bull w:is taken. (George 

 M< Alpine.) 



Most of the seals taken by me liave been females with pup. The female 

 seals are easier killed than the male, and we aim to get them. A few 

 yearlings have been killed by me, mostly females. (J. I). .McDonald.) 



Several of the females that we caught in the ocean were in pup, but 

 the pup taken out of the belly was of no use for anything, and we would 

 throw it overboard. (William Mclsaac.) 



We had :>oo or 400 seals altogether before entering Bering Sea. 

 They were most all females, which had young pups in them. (William 

 McLaughlin.) 



Q. What percentage of the cows taken are with pup ? A. The females 

 are mostly all with pup that is, up until the 1st of July. (Daniel 

 McLean.) 



We came down each year to the coast of Oregon, then went along up 

 the coast to Bering Sea. I do not recollect the exact number of seals 

 we caught in 188S, 18S<), 18VM), but last year we caught about 150 along 

 the coast. I did not pay much attention to the sex of the seals, but I 

 seen lots of little pups taken out of them. (Thomas Madden.) 



We sailed up the coast and caught a few seals until we got to Bering 

 Sea. We caught 1,100 seals, nearly all of which were caught in Ber- 

 ing Sea. We caught them around St. George Island. I think out of 

 the 1,100 we caught there were 600 females. Out of that 600 there 

 were over 400 that had pups inside of them, and we threw them all 

 overboard. (James Maloy.) 



About half of the seals killed by me, I think, were cows with pup. 

 Have never killed an old bull, but have killed a few yearlings in my 

 life. Never examined the latter as to sex. (Charles Martin.) 



The biggest part of my years catch off the coast were females with 

 pups in them. ( Patrick Maroiiey.) 



In 1S90 I went sealing in the schooner Argonaut. She sailed from 

 Victoria about the 8th of April, and sealed along the coast up to the 

 pass in Bering Sea. We caught about 250 seals that year. Most of 

 the seals we caught in the North Pacific were females. A good many 

 of them also had pups inside. (Henry Mason.) 



I noticed in the seals that we caught along the coast that a great 

 many of them were females and had pups. 1 think most of them were 

 females. I know that in my boat the catch was most all females and 

 they had pups in them. They were usually shot when sleeping on the 

 water. (William Mason.) 



We caught over 1,000 seals off the coast, almost all females, and a 

 great number of them had pups in them. * * * Entered Bering 

 Sea in July and was chased out by the cutters. Did not catch any 

 seals in the American waters in Bering Sea, but went over across on 

 the Russian side and sealed there. The whole catch for that year was 

 about 1,500 seals. Those that we killed on the Russian side were about 

 in the same proportion as to females as those killed on this side. (Thor- 

 wal Mathasan.) 



Q. What percentage of the cows you have taken were with pup? 

 A. About 75 per cent were with pup. (Prank Moreau.) 



