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the product as to insure enough 

 escaping for this object. When 

 the lease was put in practical oper- 

 ation in 1871, there was a very large 

 excess of breeding males on band; 

 since then this surplus has been 

 diminished by the dying out of the 

 old seals faster than there has been 

 youngei* seals allowed to escape 

 and grow up to fill their places 

 until the present stock is insuffi- 

 cient to meet the necessities of the 

 increasing number of breeding fe- 

 males." — (H. R., 44th Congress, 1st 

 Session, Ex. Doc. No. 83, pp. 176, 

 177.) 



11. After referring to a severe 

 gale, accompanied with snow, that 

 swept over the Seal Islands 30th 

 October, 1876, which drove all the 

 seals into the water, says: "Only 

 a comparatively small number re- 

 turned again to the shore. Among 

 these were large numbers of females 

 which had lost their young, and 

 for several days they went about 

 the breeding grounds plaintively 

 calling for their pui)S. In Novem- 

 ber, when the time had arrived for 

 driving the young seals to kill for 

 the supply of winter food for the 

 natives, it was found that only half 

 the number (5,000) requisite for 

 that purpose could be obtained. 

 Undoubtedly great numbers of the 

 you'tg seals which were driven to 

 t'l e water by the storm must have 

 become separated from their par- 

 ents and lost." — ("Monograph of 

 North American Pinnipeds," p. 

 397.) 



" When the sun shines for two 

 or three hours, and the rocks be- 

 come heated, there are occasional 

 deaths among the beftch-masters 

 and very young pups from sun- 

 stroke Fortunately 



these occurrences are rare, and it 

 was only in 1874 that any appre- 

 ciable number were lost from this 

 cause. That year many young seals 

 died about the 1st of August." — 

 ("Monograph of North American 

 Pinnipeds,'' p. 408.) 



12. "These hauling-grounds are 

 swept and driven two or three 



11. "I do not think that while I 

 was there I saw in any one season 

 fifty dead pups on the rookeries, 

 and the majority of dead pups were 

 along the shore, having been killed 

 by the surf." — (United States Case, 

 Aj)peudix, vol. ii, p. 8.) 



12. "The driving and killing of 

 bachelor seals was always carried 



