90 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



any other existing mammals. They are still dependent on the land or on 

 fields of ice for a resting-place, to which they necessarily resort to bring 

 forth their young. They ate thus very unlike the sea-cows and the whale 



trihe, tvhich are strictly aquatic, bringing forth their young in the ivater, 



and entirely unfitted for locomotion on land. 



The statement tliat the iiimiipeds generally have been 

 evolved, in the conrse of geological time, from animals 

 resembling the bears, has no relevancy when cited in con- 

 nection with the present inquiry. The actual habits of 

 seals, it may be arguable, have some bearing on the ques- 

 tions at issue, but the suj^posed history of their evolution 

 can have none. 



DR. W. H. DALL. 



Dr. W. H. Dall, who, as a well-known naturalist having 

 personal knowledge of the Pribyloft' Islands, is also relied 

 upon and frequently referred to in the Case of the United 

 States, describes the fur-seals as animals — 



Pacific Coast whose normal liabitat would seem to be the sea itself, and whose tem- 

 Pilot ; Coast Pilot porary sojonrn on the land is only rendered possible by the uniform 

 of Alaska, Ap- coolness and moisture of the islands, 

 pendix I, p. 35. 



SIR W. H. FLOWER, K. C. E., F. R. S. 



Sir W. H. Flower, K. C. B., F. E. S., a specially 

 104 competent authority on this subject, in his article on 

 Mammalia in the " Encyclopaedia Britanuica," speaks 

 as follows of the Pinnipedia: 



The animals of this group are all aquatic in their mode of life, 

 spending tlie greater part of their time in the water, swimming and 

 diving with great facility, feeding mainly on fish, ornstaeeans, and 

 other marine animals, and progressing on land with difficulty. They 

 always come on shore, however, for the purpose of bringing forth their 

 young. 



CAPTAIN BRYANT. 



Captain Bryant, who had long experience in connection 

 with the fur-seals of the Pribyloff Islands, and whose evi- 

 dence, contained in a very recent statement made by him 

 in connection with the present Arbitration, is prominently 

 quoted in the Case of the United States, also writes as 

 follows : 



SEALS RESORT TO PRIBYLOFFS SOLELY FOR REPRODUCTION. 



Qnoted in Al- The fur-seals resort to the Pribyloff Islands during the summer 

 leu 8 "Paper on months for the sole purpose of reproduction. Those sharing in these 

 the ijarea Seals, , ,• ., ^ .' xi i x-i j.i i i 



Bull. Mus. Comp. duties necessarily remain on or near the shore until the young are able 



Zool., vol. ii, No. to take to the water. 



1, p. 95. 



f ^\Tof N^Th '^^^ ^^^* *^** fur-seals are capable of a certain freedom 

 ^niCTicfui Piuni- of motiou whilc Oil the land is largely the result of the 

 ^FioweT "Encv- g^'^atcr powpT of active motion which characterizes these 

 ciopoedia Britan- auimals at all times, and which is equally or even more 

 pp!^'42, 443^' '^^' marked at sea, where in particular the dolphin-like leaps 

 of the fur-seals have been frequently noted as entirely dif- 



Eiiiott,""[Tnited fercut froiii anything in the more leisurely and heavy mode 

 porv^pp^isfi^liof progression of the hair-seals or walruses. 



