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can," <^Yorktown," "Adams," "Eanger," "Eusli," and 

 I "Corwin," and Her Majesty's ships "Melpomene," and 

 " Daphne," established that not more than 500 seals were 

 killed in Behring Sea during 189:i. Therefore, no excep- 

 tional mortality among pups could have arisen from the 

 killing of nursing females. It is, however, undoubted that Appendix vol 

 more dead pups were seen on the islands in 1892 than in i, p.i4o. 

 1891. It was, further, again noticed that the excessive 

 mortality was as before confined to St. Paul Island. At- 

 tention to Mr. Macoun's Keport on this matter is respect- 

 fully invited. 



CHARACTER OF EVIDENCE ADDUCED BY THE UNITED 

 STATES TO SHOW THAT BREEDING FEMALES GO FAR TO 

 SEA FOR FOOD. 



A considerable body of evidence is cited in the Case of c^e,pp^iil-ii9^ 

 the United States, to support the statement that the nurs- 

 ing females regularly and frequently go long distances to 

 sea in search of food; and in recurring to this evidence on ibid.,p.209. 

 another page, it is so mentioned as to convey the impres- 

 sion that the females leave the rookeries for this purpose 

 almost immediately after the birth of the young, or, 

 314 in other words, almost immediately after their arrival 



there; though all previous observations, together j^?^i*^^^j.gp^™- 

 with many of the statements now cited in the United States port, para. 306. 

 Case itself, show that the females do not seek the water for sug'j^eport, p^ag, 

 any purpose till some time after giving birtli. <fcc. 



THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS AND PROFESSOR 

 ALLEN ADDUCE NO FACTS. 



The United States Commissioners in their report content 

 themselves with making the following affirmation on this 

 subject: 



Cows when nursing regularly travel long distances to feed. They Ignited States 

 are frequently found 100 or 150 miles from the islands, and sometimes ^^^^' P- 229- 

 at greater distances. 



Professor J. A. Allen, in his specially prepared Eeport, 

 merely says : 



It is further well I'nown that the mother seals leave the islands at Ibifl., Appen- 

 frequent intervals and proceed far out to sea in search of food, andin <l'x, vol.i, pp.409, 

 Behring Sea they [the female seals] make long excursions for food. ^^^' 



THE AFFIDAVITS ARE SUBSEQUENT IN DATE TO THE 

 REPORT OF UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS. 



Neither the United States Commissioners nor Professor 

 Allen have referred to the facts upon which they have 

 reached these conclusions. The whole of the affidavits 

 specially referred to in the Case of the United States on 

 this subject, except two, bear dates subsequent to that at 

 which the Eeport of the United States Commissioners was 

 completed, viz., 15th April, 1892; and of these two excep- 

 tional affidavits, one, that of Dr. H. H. Mclntyre, speaks 

 only of young (non-bearing) females going to feed. Pro- 

 fessor Allen has not cited the facts which have led him to 



