APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



485 



Congress, 2nd Session, Eeport No. mnm." Attributes mortality to kill- 



3883, ]). 71.) ins of mo thc'i-.s.— (United* States 



Notliinj^: said here or anywhere Case, vol. ii, p. 04.) 

 else in evidence of dead pups being 

 a resultant of the killing- at sea. 

 They are nowhere mentioned. 



131 



E. B. Mclntyre {1870-89). 



1. "The seals are found indis- 

 criminately on the two islands; 

 that is, seals born on St. George 

 are found at St. Paul, and vice 

 verad.^^ — (IT. E.,50th Congress, 2nd 

 Session, lieport No. 3883, p. 128.) 



2. Except in the vague assump- 

 tion that when females are Jiilled 

 their young die, no reference is 

 made in "Fur-Seal Fisheries of 

 Alaska" to dead pups being found 

 on rookeries. 



3. " We had then [1873-82], and 

 at all times until the marauding 

 was actually engaged in, a large 

 surplus of animals froin which to 

 make our selection. After 1883 

 [until 1882 sizes right, see above] 

 the sizes decreased, and have con- 

 stantly decreased ever since." — 

 (H. H., 5()th Congress, 2nd Ses- 

 sion, Keport No. 3883, p. 118.) 



4. " The fact is that the bachelor 

 seals may be found to-day ui)ou a 

 certain rookery, and at another 

 time upon another ])lace. Tlie re- 

 sult is the same animals, in many 

 instances, have been counted two 



1. " The seals are migratory and 

 return, as 1 believe, aftci- migration 

 to the vicinity and ])robably to the 

 ground or rookery on which they 

 were born." — (United States Case, 

 vol. ii, p. 40.) 



2. Keference is made to dead 

 pups having been found on the 

 Pribylolf Islands in 1880, 1887, and 

 1888. — (United States Case, vol. ii, 

 p. 51.) 



3. "In my judgment such deple- 

 tion was caused by pelagic sealing, 

 and that it grew greater from year 

 to year as the number of so called 

 l)oaching-scliooners increased ; and 

 that its effects began to manifest 

 themselves about 1885 or 1880."— 

 (United States Case, vol. ii, p. 40.) 



" During the three years follow- 

 ing 1882, namely, 1883, 1884, and 

 1885, I was not upon the islands; 

 thatui)on my return to said islands 

 in 1880 1 noticed a slight shrinkage 

 in the breeding areas, but am un- 

 able to indicate the year of the 

 period of my absence in which the 

 decrease of breeding seals be- 

 gan." — (United States Case, vol. 

 ii, p. 45.) 



" Up to 1882 there was no diffi- 

 culty in procuring the required 

 number of seals." — (United States 

 Case, vol. ii, p. 45.) 



" This number [100,000] was eas- 

 ily secured every year from 1871 to 

 1885, and at the same time a con- 

 stant increase in the seal rookeries 

 was observed" (p. 48). 



4. "Yet their [the seals'] habits 

 are so well defined and unvarying 

 that it is an easy matter to deter- 

 mine whether they increase or de- 

 crease from year to year, because 

 they always occupy the same por- 



