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A few male seal have been taken by me from 2 to 4 years old. (Joshua 

 Stickland.) 



We commenced sealing as soon as we got outside of the cape, and 

 captured about 270 seals along up the coast. Most of the seals caught 

 were pregnant females, and when we would skin them the milk would 

 run out of them on the deck. We began sealing off the Columbia Eiver 

 and then sealed northward up the coast to Bering Sea, and captured 

 about 320 seals in the North Pacific Ocean, mostly all females, and nearly 

 all had young pups in them. (John A. Swain.) 



Most of the seals taken by me were cows with pup. * * * A few 

 male seal have been taken from 1 to 4 years old. But very few old 

 bulls have ever been taken by me. Have killed a few yearlings every 

 year. (M. Thlkahdaynahkee.) 



Most of the seals taken on this coast are cows with young. Quite 

 a large number of yearlings are taken, most of which are females. 

 (Charlie Tlaksatan.) 



Most of the seal taken by me have been females with pup. A few 

 male seals have been taken by me, ages ranging from 1 to 4 years, I 

 should think. Some yearlings have been taken, a majority of which 

 were females also. Very few old bulls have been killed by me. (James 

 Unatajim.) 



Most of the seals taken have been cows with pup. I have taken but 

 a very few old bulls. I have killed plenty of young males, and have 

 taken quite a number of yearlings, but never examined them as to sex. 

 (George Usher.) 



The majority of seal taken are cows. A few yearlings are killed, 

 mostly females. (Rudolph Walton.) 



In purchasing fur seals from hunters I have noticed that not less than 

 75 per cent of the catch taken previous to May 25 are female seals, and 

 from the development of the teat on the skin were evidently females 

 with pup. After that the catch is mostly young seals, and I paid no 

 attention to the sex. (M. L. Washburn.) 



Most of the seals captured along the coast are cows with pups in 

 them. I have never captured any cows in milk or that had given 

 birth to their young that year on the coast, and I do not recollect of 

 ever having caught an old bull. (Watkins.) 



Out of 50 seals taken so far this season 46 are females with pup and 

 4 are males. Only one yearling seal has been taken this season among 

 the males. I should think the male seals taken this year were between 

 2 and 3 years old. (P. S. Weittenhiller.) 



While out hunting this year we caught 16 seals; one-half of them 

 were cows with pup, the remainder were yearlings and 2-year-olds of 

 both sexes. (Charley White.) 



In my captures off the coast between here and Sitka 90 per cent of 

 my catch were females, but off the coast of Unimak Pass there was a 

 somewhat smaller percentage of females, and nearly all the females 

 were cows heavy with pup, and in some instances the time of delivery 

 was so near at hand that I have frequently taken the live pup from the 

 mother's womb. (Michael White.) 



I think about one-half the seals killed by me have been females with 

 pup, and the balance were divided up between yearlings and 1 and 2 



