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times a-week during the months 

 of June and July, and the prime 

 seals culled ont for killing, and 

 every seal growing- up has to run 

 this gauntlet for his life his second, 

 third, and fourth year, before he 

 escapes to grow np as a breeding- 

 bull."— (H. K., 44th Congress, 4th 

 Session, Ex. Doc. No. 83, p. 170.) 



VS. "These beaches occupied by 

 the intermediate ages, from 1 to 

 years, together with the few su- 

 l^erannuated ones. . . . These 

 seals as they lie on the beaches, are 

 surprised by the hunters, cut oft" 

 from tlie water, and driven inland 

 in droves to the salt houses, where 

 they are separated into groups of 

 sixty or seventy at a time and sur- 

 rounded by the sealers with their 

 clubs. Under the direction of the 

 Chief, the prime seals are selected 

 and killed, and those too young or 

 too old are allowed to go into tho 

 water and return to the hauling- 

 ground again." — (H. R., 44th Con- 

 gress, 1st iSessiou, Ex. Doc. No. 83, 

 p. 170.) 



on in tlie most careful manner, and 

 during my stay upon the islands 

 there was practically no injury 

 caused to seal life by over-driving. 

 . . . . Redriving of the growing 

 males from the various hauling- 

 gronnds was made at intervals of 

 several days, and did not cause 

 them any injury; and I am thor- 

 oughly satistied that there was not 

 a single instance in which the 

 vitality of a seal was destroyed or 

 impaired by redriving." — (United 

 States Case, Appendix II, p. 8.) 



13. "In all cases, at suitable in- 

 tervals and before driving to the 

 killing- ground, theherd washalted, 

 and the males of 5 years old or older 

 were allowed to escape." — (United 

 States Case, Appendix II, p. 8.) 



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Stephen JS. £uynits]{y {1870-72), 



1. "They [the natives] subsist 

 mostly on cod and halibut and 

 every description of fish they can 

 find. They dry and preserve it for 

 winter." — (H. E.., 50th Congress, 

 2nd Session, Keport No. 3883, p. 12.) 



1. "At the time I was on the 

 islands I do not thiidc there were 

 any fish at all within 3 miles of the 

 islands, and that the seals to feed 

 had to go farther than that from 

 the land. The belief is founded on 

 statements made me by natives on 

 the islands, and also from the fact 

 that fresh fish were seldom eaten 

 upon the islands." — (United States 

 Case, AxJiJendix II, p. 21.) 



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