326 TESTIMONY 



Mostly pregnaut wlille linnting' tlie seals. We captured between 900 



and 1,000 on the coast, most all of which were females 



femaieJ ''''"* ""Iking with piips. We entered the sea on July 12, through 



^' ' Unamak Pass, and captured about 800 seals in those 



waters, about 90 per cent of which were females in milk. 



A good hunter will often lose one-third of the seals he kills. A poor 



hunter will lose two-thirds of those he shoots. On an 



average, hunters will lose two seals out of three of 



2o^to^iolfmii7s*from tliose they shoot. We captured females in milk from 



rookeries. 20 to 100 milcs from the rookeries. Seals do not haul 



Do not haul upon o^^* upou the laiul aloug the coast, nor do they give 



coast. birth to their young on the kelp. We seek to shoot 



Not born on kelp, the scals whilc they are asleep on the water, because 



^ , ., .^. a seal shot while breeching- is more likely to be lost. 



Prohibition ncces- ^ , , , , j_ , i -ti i • ji j "^ t • j.i 



eary. Scals ouglit uot to bc killed m the water during the 



months of April, May, June, July, and August. 



Arthuk Griffin. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 22d day of April, A. D. 

 1892. 



[l. s.] Levi W. Myers, 



United States Consul. 



Deimsition of James Harrison^ sealer {boat puller). 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Victoria.! British Cohmhia, ss: 



James Harrison, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 



.^^^ Victoria, British Columbia, and am- by occupation sea- 



speiience. faring man. I have had experience in the seal-hunting 



business. First went out sealing- as boat puller along- the Northern 



Pacific coast about the 2Gth of June, 1891; sailed from 



Trmmph, 1891. Victoria, British Columbia, in the schooner Trimnph, 



Whidden, master; we had two boats and one .stern boat, three men 



with each boat; we commenced sealing right off" the coast; went as 



far south as the California coast and then hunted north to the west 



coast of Vancouver Islands; caught 500 skins during 



Waste o h e. ^-^^ gcason ; almost all of them were pregnaut females; 



Mostly pregnant fe- out of a hundred scals taken about 90 per cent would 



™^^'^^- be females with young i)ups in them; I can't tell 



a male from a female while in the water at a distance. On an 



average, I think the hunters will save about one out of three that they 



kill, but they wound many more that escape and die 



Entered Bering Sea. aftcrwards. Wc entered the Bering Sea about the 1st 



of June, and caught about 200 seals in those waters. 



^^Mostiy milking rj^j^^y ^^^.^ mostly motlicr s th at had given birth to their 



young and were around the fishing banks feeding. The 



hunters used shotguns and rifles. In the Bering Sea we killed both 



male and female, but I do not know the proportion of one to the other. 



I returned and was discharged at Victoria, British Columbia, about the 



last of August. 



