220 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



255 J. F'Kjuera states that he has had a good many harren cows 

 amoiii^st those he has shot. 



Capiahi C. E. AlocJdcr stati-s tliat about two-thirds of the females 

 tnkeu by him on the coast are pregnant. 



Lee J. T/( ices says: "I have Iri^quently got a number of cows that 

 have had neither i)ups nor milk, and get more of tliat kind on tliis 

 coast than the Japan coast. There has been so much talk about seal 

 life that I took particular notice of these facts last year," 



6r. IVells, in 1890, got a larger number of barren cows and j'oung 

 females than usual; about one-half the females taken by him on the 

 coast were in i)up, and this was tlie ciise in 18iJl and 189li. 



IV. 0. Sha/'er says that of forty (eniales ho took in Behring Sea 

 about ten were in milk ; the rest he " was unable to say whether they 

 were barren or had lost their pups; certainly they were not carrying 

 their young or in millc." 



W. Connevs says: " We meet witli and get plenty of barren cows. 



P. E. Peterson snys: "I have killed lots of barren cows." 



J. Ford states that fully half the cows he has taken ou the coast 

 ■were neither in pup nor had milk in them. 



J. I)'. Creiv says tliat he lias got ''a great many barren females." 



A. W. Bohdul says tliat ou the coast only about half the females 

 taken by him were with itn\). 



J. Matiheivs says that half the seals taken by him on the coast were 

 females, and that not one in live seals taken was a female carrying 

 young. 



J. MeKiel states that but three-fifths of the females taken ou the 

 coast are with pup. 



Ct. Hcatvr states tliat about oue-third his catch were females, of 

 which some were barren. 



G. C. Geroiv, live years' experience, states: ''In a good season's 

 catch there would be about 100 to 150 barren fenuiles." 



Captain S. W. Buckman says: "Barren females are often found." 



Copfain W. Fet'd, seven years' experience, says : "Among the females 

 taken this year [18;).;] were a good many barren females. The last 

 day's catch (deposition made 16th .June) was foiir barren females and 

 four males." 



Captain C. F. Dillon says: "There were a good many barren females 

 among the last seals I took this year." 



A. /Sinclair had taken eighty-.six seals at time deposition was made, 

 and states: "I notU'Cil two barren females aiuoug those I got." 



256 W. Edwards, who took 138 seals before the 17th June, 1892, 

 says: "There were verv few barren females among the seals I 



got." 



G. F. French, three years' experience, as hunter, says: "Out of the 

 143 seals taken by me this year between 30 and 40 were barren ; not 

 more than GO of the seals taken by me were females; more than half 

 wore l)arreu cows." 



F. Jolibis states that in 1802 of thirty females a few were barren 

 cows. 



L. McGraw says: "Last year I noticed a good many barren cows 

 among those taken, but not any this year." 



Captain H. F. iSietcard says: "1 only noticed one or two barren 

 females in my catch." 



F. Moreau says: " We get plenty of barren cows." 



P. Carlson found tliat a uood many cows to the north of Sitka had 

 neither i)up nor millc in them. 



IJ. A. Lewis says: "I have killed barren cows, but it is a matter I 

 have not noticed very closely." 



F. Hummel states: "I have killed jileiity of barren cows." 



J. Carthrat says: "Have ha.d a good many barren cows." 



Indian Evidence. 



_ Appendix, vol. Kas-ado snys that off the coast he sometimns gets cows not with pup. 

 li, pp. 140-lCG. i,^ Behring Sea there would be more males than females taken, and of 



the females half would be young females and cows without pups in 



them. 



Hchoultwick, and six Indians who were examined with him, say of 



the female seals taken near the village of Ohiat: "Lots of them are 



old ones Avithout pups." 



