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DESTRUCTION OF PREGNANT FEMALES. 



We caught about 185 seals, mostly females in young, and we killed 

 them while they were asleep on the water. (Charles Adair.) 



Most of the seals killed by me have been females with pup. (Akatoo.) 



We sealed along the coast and captured 154. Most all of them were 

 pregnant females. (Charles A very.) 



Most all seals that I have killed were pregnant cows. Have taken a 

 few male seals from 1 to 4 years old, I think. Have never killed an old 

 bull. (Adam Ayonkee.) 



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

 A. About 99 per cent of the cows taken were with pup. There may be 

 one in a hundred that is either without pup or has had one. (George 

 Ball.) 



Most all the seals taken are females with pup. (Johnnie Baronovitch.) 



Seventy-five per cent of the seal taken on the coast are cows with 

 pup. (Martin Benson.) 



We left Port Townsend in May and sealed south to Cape Flattery, 

 and then went north along the coast until we came to Unimak Pass, 

 and captured from 300 to 400 seals. Most all were females and had 

 pups in them. I think fully two-thirds of all we caught were females, 

 and a few were bulls. * * * We secured 500 skins along the coast, 

 most all of which were pregnant females. (Bernhardt Bleidner.) 



I have never killed any full-grown cows on the coast that did not 

 have pups in them, and I have hunted all the way from the Columbia 

 River to Barclay Sound. (Bowa-chup.) 



We left Victoria about May, going north, and sealed all the way to 

 Bering Sea. We had about 60 before entering Bering Sea, nearly all 

 of which were females with young pups in them. (Thomas Bradley.) 



Our last catch of seals on the coast were almost exclusively gravid 

 females. (Henry Brown.) 



We had 250 seals before entering the sea, the largest percentage of 

 which were females, most of them having young pups in them. I saw 

 some of the young pups taken out of them. (Thomas Brown.) 



On my last sealing cruise this spring we caught five seals; two of 

 them were females and had pups in them; three of them were young 

 and smaller seals and had black whiskers. None but full-grown cows 

 have white whiskers, but young cows and young bulls have black 

 whiskers. About half of all the seals captured along the coast have 

 white whiskers and are cows with pups in them. Most all full grown 

 cows that are caught have pups in them. Once, late in the season, I 

 caught a full-grown barren cow with white whiskers. (Landis Callapa.) 



Seventy-five per cent of seals shot in the North Pacific Ocean are 

 females heavy with young. (John C. Cantwell.) 



Most of the seals we killed going up the coast were females heavy 

 with pup. I think nine out of every ten were females. (Charles 

 Challall.) 



Not quite half of all seals caught along the coast are cows with pups 

 in them. About half are young seals, both male and female, and the 



