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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



6. Professor Allen, quoting- Mr. 

 Recks, with special reference to 

 the harbour seal, writes: 



" He adds that it is only in the 

 spring of the year that this seal 

 will 'float' when killed in the water, 

 but says that he has never seen a 

 seal so poor, which if killed dead 

 on the spot would not have floated 

 from five to ten seconds, or long 

 enough to give 'ample time for 

 rowing alongside, supposing the 

 animal to have been killed by shot, 

 and the boat to contain two hands ' " 

 (p. 597). 



Again, referring to the bearded 

 seal, he quotes Kumlien as fol- 

 lows: 



"In July during the moulting 

 time their stomachs contained 

 nothing but stones, some of 

 125 them nearly of a quarter- 

 pound weight. They seemed 

 to eat nothing during the entire 

 time of shetlding, probably six 

 weeks. Certain it is that they lose 

 all their blubber, and by the mid- 

 dle of July have nothing but 

 'white horse,' a tough, white, some- 

 what cartilaginous substance, in 

 place of blubber. At this season 

 they sink when shot" (pp. 571-672). 



"6. Only such seals as are in- 

 stantly disabled can be secured, 

 and even many of tliese must be 

 lost, since the specific gravity of 

 a dead seal is greater than that 

 of the water in which it is killed " 

 (p. 40y). 



Extracts from Reports and Evidence of Captain Charles Bryant 



{1869-76). 



1. "The pups are about five 

 weeks old when the old females go 

 off to feed."— ("On Eared Seals," 

 p. 103.) 



"From that time [after being 

 served] she lies either sleeping near 

 her young or spends her time float- 

 ing or playing in the water near 

 the shore, returning occasionally to 

 suckle her pup." — ("Monograph 

 of North American Pinnipeds," 

 p. 386.) 



" The females go into the water 

 to feed when the pups are some 6 

 weeks old." — (Senate, 41st Con- 

 gress, 2nd Session, Ex. Doc. No. 

 32, p. 5.) 



1. "The pnp is nursed by its 

 mother from its birth as long as it 

 reuuiins on the islands, the mother 

 leaving the islands at different 

 intervals of time after the pup is 

 3 or 4 days old." — (United States 

 Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 5.) 



