COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 93 



In regard to the departure of tliis class, it is said that 

 this — 



gpnerally takes place at the same time the cows and pnps leave the Ibid., p. 122. 

 islands, though a few bachelors always are found after that period. 



107 So that, as an extreme limit of time for the stay of jj^^;;^'!^^^^^^"^''^^^^^* 



the bachelors, we have, according" to the statements 

 here made, about five months and a half. 



EVIDENCE GIVEN IN UNITED STATES CASE SHOWS STILL 

 SHORTER RESORT TO BREEDING ISLANDS. 



But the evidence of those personally familiar with the 

 breeding islands, even tliat which is appended to the 

 United States Case, invariably gives shorter linntsof time 

 foi' the sojourn of any considerable numbers of the seals 

 on the islands. 



MR. FOWLER. 



Thus, Mr. Fowler, the agent of the lessees, states : 



The hull seals arrive on the islands from the latter part of April to United States 

 June 15th, and most all of them leave in August and September. Case, Appendix, 

 . . . . The cows come to the islands between June 1 and July 20, vol. ii, p. 25. 



and commenoe'leaving in October The young male seals 



from 2 to n \e;irs old come in May or June The pups are 



born soon after the cows arrive, and remaiu until October or November. 



MR. MORTON. 



Mr. Morton, agent for the lessees, and Treasury Agent, 

 says: 



By the middle of September the systematic organization of the ibid., p.67, 

 rookeries is entirely bioken up, and the major part of the seals have 

 lelt the land. 



J. KOTCHOOTEN. 



Jacob Kotchooten, a native sealer, says: 



The most of the bulls leave the island in September, and the cows ibid., p. 131. 

 in the last of October, and early in November. 



MR. MORGAN. 



Mr. Thomas F. Morgan, agent of lessees for many years : 



The pups which left the island the year before have now become Ibid., pp. 62, 63. 

 "yearlings," .... not coming on shore until some time in 



August or September The male seal, now called a bull, 



returns to the islands about the IsC May About the 1st 



August he again takes to the water. 



MR. FRATIS. 



John Fratis, twenty- two years on St. Paul Island: 



The cows appear about the 10th June, and they are all on the rook- Ibid., p. 108. 



eries about tlie middle of July The bachelors come in 



May, .... and they continue coming till July The 



cows and bachelors begin to leave in October and November, but their 

 going is regulated somewhat by the weather. 



