86 PELAGIC SEALING. 



Examination of nursing- females; 1 and Mr. C. H. Townsend, of the 



seals by C. H. ° 



Townsend, 1892. U. g. Fish Commission, the well-known naturalist 

 who accompanied him, includes in his deposition 

 a photograph of two half-skinned cows taken 

 August 2, 1892, 175 miles from the Pribilof Is- 

 lands, 2 exhibiting the distended mammary glands, 

 "which in all cases were filled with milk." 2 



That the pups of these nursing cows are de- 

 pendent solely upon their mothers for nourish- 

 ment has already been discussed both in the Case 

 of the United States and in this Counter Case. 3 ' 

 Dead pups on The Commissioners, to support their position, 



tlie rookeries. 



endeavor to explain away the obvious inference 

 derivable from the fact that a large number of 

 dead pup-seals were observed by them on the 

 Pribilof rookeries during their cursory examina- 

 tion of seal life on the Islands. It is evident, 

 from the efforts made and theories advanced to 

 explain this mortality, that the Commissioners 

 considered the presence of these bodies prima 

 facie evidence of the fact they endeavor to dis- 

 prove (Sees. 344-356). These officials have, 

 through some strange circumstance, been led 

 into the belief that they were the first to 



1 Capt. Hooper's report, post table facing p. 219. 



2 C. H. Townsend, post p. 394. 

 8 Ante p. 53. 



