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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



forty-two cows with one bull. I 

 think if there were more bulls there 

 would be less cows to one bull, and 

 in that way the increase would be 

 g^reater than now." — (H. E., 50th 

 Congress, 2nd Session, EeportNo. 

 3883, p. 59.) 



5. "These vessels will take occa- 

 sion to hang- around the islands, 

 and when there is a heavy fog to 

 go to the rookeries. Very often 

 . . . . As it is to-day these ves- 

 sels come and kill 5,000, 10,000, 

 15,000 seal every year."— (H. E., 

 50th Congress, 2ud Session, Eeijort 

 No. 3883, p. 5i.) 



5. "There was but one raid on 

 the rookeries while I was there, 

 and that took place on Otter 

 Island." — (United States Case, vol. 

 ii, p. 177.) 



T. F. Morgan {1868-69, 1874-87). 



1. " Q. "Were the rookeries in the 

 last years of your visit as full as 

 in the beginning? — A. There is a 

 large increase in the number of 

 animals since 18G8, when I first 

 There is a large in- 

 1874, when I went 

 breeding rookeries 

 territory than they 

 [Evidence given in 



went there. 



crease since 



back. The 



occupy more 



did tiien." 



1888.]— (H. E., 50th Congress, 2ud 



Session, Eeport No. 3883, pp. 68, 



G9.) 



" Q. Then the result of your 

 observations is that there has been 

 an increase in numbers'? — A. Yes, 

 Sir."— (H. E., 50th Congress, 2nd 

 Session, Eeport No. 3883, x). 72.) 



" There is no question but what 

 these schooners have had an eflect 

 upon the rookeries in the last three 

 years in the difference in the way 



the seals arrive 



There is no question in my mind 

 but that a very large percentage 

 of those animals taken near the 

 shore are females." — (H. E., 50th 



1. "In 1885, and in every year 

 thereafter until I left in 1887, there 

 was a nuirked decrease in the num- 

 ber of marketable skins that could 

 be obtained in each year during 

 the sealing season. We were able 

 down to the last year [1887] to get 

 our total catch of 100,000 seals, 

 but in order to get that number we 

 had to take what in previous years 

 we would have rejected, namely, 

 undersized skins, i. e., the skins ot 



young seals. 



In the 



years 1885, 1886, and 1887 my atten- 

 tion was attracted not only to a 

 diminution in the number of killa- 

 ble seals appearing on the island, 

 but to a deciease in the females as 

 well. TJpTol884thebreeding-space 

 in the rookeries had increased, and 

 from that year down to 1887, when 

 I left the island, the acreage cov- 

 ered by the rookeries which were 

 occupied by seals constantl^^ dimin- 

 ished." — (United States Case, vol. 

 ii, pp. 63, 64.) 



" From the vear 1 884 down to the 

 l)eriod when I left St.Georgelsland 

 there was a marked increase in the 

 number of dead pups, amounting, 

 perhaps, to a trebling of the num- 

 bers observed in former years, so 

 that I would estimate the number 

 of dead pups in the year 1887 at 

 about 5,000 or 7,000 as a maxi- 



