RESULTING WASTE OF LIFE. 97 



The table entitled "White Hunters " is made Sources of 



"White Hunters" 



up from the statements of sixteen witnesses ; taL1 e- 

 five of these (Nos. 1, 7, 20, 26, and 27, p. 107) 

 state specifically that the loss of seals they refer 

 to are seals lost by sinking; six others, examined 

 at the same time as the former witnesses, do not 

 state what they mean by " seals lost," but it is 

 to be presumed their meaning- is the same; the 

 statements of three others whose evidence "was 

 personally obtained" can not be examined on 

 this point, as such statements have not been 

 published ; Abel Douglass's ratio of loss is given 

 in the table without reference to where it was 

 obtained, so that what he means by " seals lost" 

 is impossible to determine ; the one remaining 

 hunter used in the compilation of the table 

 (William Fewing) is the only one who definitely, 

 or impliedly, states that "seals lost" refers to 

 those escaping as well as to those that sink, and 

 this is particularly noted in the table under 

 " Remarks." 



It can be fairly assumed, therefore, that this Table only gives 



seals lost by siiik- 



table only represents the seals lost by sinking. iu g. 

 The whole question, so important to this contro- 

 versy, as to how many seals are lost by wound- 

 ing is summed up in the vague admission, that 

 "a certain proportion of the seals shot of course 



escape" (Sec. 628), and is dismissed by calculate 

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