298 SEAL LIFE ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



Most all the seals killed by me have been females with pup. (Amos 

 Mill.) 



We began sealing off Cape Flattery; sailed and sealed to the north- 

 ward, and captured about 800 seals along the coast. There were not 

 over ten males in the whole lot. The females had pups in them, and 

 we cut them out of their mothers and threw them overboard into the 

 ocean. (John Morris.) 



About half of the seals caught along the coast are cows with pups in 

 them. A few medium-sized males are also taken, and the rest are young 

 seals of both sexes. We scarcely ever see an old bull seal, nor can we 

 tell the sex of the seals in the water. I have never caught any full- 

 grown cows along the coast that did not have pups in them. (Moses.) 



About half the seals taken by me are cows with pup. I have taken 

 a few old bulls in my life, but not many. Have taken quite a number 

 of yearlings. The male seals taken are between 2 and 3 years. 

 (Nashtau.) 



About one-half of the seals I have taken were females with pup. 

 Have taken a very few yearlings. Once in a while I take an old bull, 

 but not often. The male seals that I have killed are 2 and 3 years old, 

 I think. (Dan Nathlan.) 



Think about half of the seals taken by me have been cows with pup. 

 The rest are yearlings and young males 2 and 3 years old. Have never 

 seen an old bull in my life. (Joseph Neishkaitk.) 



Almost every female that has arrived at the age of maturity is preg- 

 nant. We follow them on from there into Bering Sea, and almost all 

 the females taken are pregnant. (Mies Nelson.) 



We sailed south as far as Blanco, sealing around there for two or 

 three months, when we headed north into Bering Sea, having caught 

 250 or 300 seals before entering the sea, of which 60 per cent of them 

 were females, mostly all of them having pups in them. (John O'Brien.) 



In the beginning of the season we killed mostly yearling seals, but as 

 the season advanced we got almost all mothers in young in the vicinity 

 of Cape Flattery or from the Columbia liiver to Vancouver. (Nelson 

 T. Oliver.) 



The catch along the coast for the last six or seven years, since the 

 rifle and shotgun have come into use, is principally females, and the 

 grown ones have pups in them. The catch of young seals is much less 

 in proportion to the number caught than they were when Indians used 

 to take them by spearing. (William Parker.) 



We began sealing off Cape Flattery and sealed right up toward Be- 

 ring Sea, capturing 16 seals along the coast, all of which were females 

 with pup. We captured 250 females with pup on the coast and then 

 returned to Victoria, after which we sailed again in a short time on the 

 same vessel with the same crew for the North Pacific Ocean and Be- 

 ring Sea, capturing about 250 female seals while en route to Bering Sea, 

 also a few male yearlings. (Charles Peterson.) 



My experience in four years 7 sealing is that nearly all the seals taken 

 along the coast are pregnant females, and it is seldom that one of them 

 is caught that has not a young pup in her. (Edwin P. Porter.) 



I have been out sealing this year and caught 16 seals; 5 of them were 

 full-grown cows that had pups in them. The rest were young seals 



