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ibout "2 years old, both male and female, excepting- one, and that was 

 a gray pup. (Wilson Porter.) 



Most of the seals taken by me have been cows with pup. (Rondtus.) 



The majority of seals taken by me have been females with pup. Once 

 in a great while 1 eatcli an old bull. A few yearlings have been taken 

 and the majority of males are 1* and 3 year olds. (Abel Ryan.) 



While cruising along the coast our principal catch was female seals 

 with pup, the balance being principally yearlings, about half male and 

 female. (William Short.) 



We had 315 skins when we arrived here. Mostly all of them were 

 females heavy with pup asleep on the water, and we killed them with 

 shotguns. (Peter Simes.) 



Most of the seal taken by me were cows with pup. (Aaron Sim- 

 son.) 



Most of the seals taken are cows with young. (Jack Sitka.) 



Most of the seals taken by me are females with pup. Never killed 

 but one old bull in my life. Have killed but a few yearlings and never 

 looked to see if they were male or female. The young males killed by 

 me were between 1 and 3 years old. (Thomas Skowl.) 



I think .'{ females with pup out of every 10 killed. 1 kill lots of 

 yearlings, but never examined them as to sex. Never shoot any old 

 bulls, although I have seen a good many. (George Skultka.) 



We sailed from here on the Flying Mist on the 17th day of April, 

 1871, and caught altogether on that voyage about 875 seals, of which a 

 large majority were either females with pups or with their breasts full 

 of milk. J saw it flowing on the deck when we were skinning them. 

 * * Went to Okhotsk Sea and sealed there about two mouths. 

 W r e got there some 500 seals, of which more than one half were females, 

 and the most of them had pups in them. (James Sloan.) 



1 am informed by our London sales agent, and believe, that nearly 

 or quite nine-tenths of the Victoria catch is composed of females. 

 (Leon Sloss.) 



A very large majority of the seal taken in the North Pacific are cows 

 with pup. (Fred Smith.) 



We left San Francisco in February, and fished all the way up to 

 Ivadiak Island. We caught about 475 seals and about 40 otters. To 

 the best of my judgment, the greatest portion of these were cows heavy 

 with young. We could see the milk running out of their teats when 

 they were skinned. 1 saw pups inside of the seals that we cut, and we 

 saved some of them and fed them." (E. W. Soron.) 



We left here with the City of Mm />ieyo in February, 1888, and arrived 

 in Bering Sea in June, 1888. As soon as we got into the ocean we 

 commenced shooting seals and continued shooting all the way up to the 

 Aleutian Islands. The seals became more plentiful as we were going 

 north. We caught about 650 during that voyage. We killed a portion 

 in Bering Sea. We killed 1 large bull that I recollect, and the rest 

 were nearly all females with pup, or mothers giving milk. (Cyrus 

 Stephens.) 



Most of the seals taken are females with pup. Out of 111 seals last 

 year I killed but 3 bulls. A very few yearlings have been taken by me. 



