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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



4 II. — Actual Numbers of Seals talien by Pelagic Sealers compared 



with those lost by Sinldng^ and resulting Loss per Gent. 



In the majority of instances, hunters swear that careful count was 

 kept of the seals lost by sinking. 



Where two numbers are given as representing the number of seals 

 lost by sinking, the larger has always been used in determining the 

 percentage lost, and in setting down the percentage itself the figure 

 after the decimal point has always been made large, not small — thus, 

 4.33 would be written 4.4. 



Ko choice was made of men when the affidavits were taken, and no 

 affidavits in which actual figures were given have been omitted in pre- 

 paring this table. 



WHITE HUNTEIIS. 



Name. 



Jolin Townsend. . . 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Charles le Blanc . . . 



Abel Douglas 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



George Koberts — 



Ditto 



Matthew Ryan 



Ditto 



ThorwalMathason 



Ditto 



J. S. Fanning . 



Ditto , 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Abraham Billaid . 



Ditto 



W.T.Bragg 



Ditto 



George Dishow . . 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



otto Buchholz... 



Vessel. 



Maggie Mac. 



Viva 



Mary Taylor 



A nnie E.'Paiut 



Triumph 



Ditto .. 

 Ditto ... 

 Arietas 

 Teresa.. 



Annie E. Paint. 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Oscar and Hattie 



Dora Sieward. 

 LillieL 



Ralph Starrat 



William < )'Leary . 



William Cowie 



Frank CampboU.. 



Joseph Brown 



William Dewitt. . . 



Ditto . 

 Ditto . 



Allio J. Algar. 



Henry Dennis . . . 



Ditto 



Beatrice 



Skins 

 obtained. 



Seals lost. 



Between 



60 and 70 



270 



172 



200 



More 

 than 160 

 4G0 

 300 

 147 

 232 



222 



319 



Maud S 



Annie C. Moore. .. 

 Agnes Macdoii aid , 



Favourite 



Penelope 



Ditto 



Walter L. Rich.. 



Umbrina 



Ditto 



Sea Lion 



Oscar and Hattie . 



Geneva 



Oscar and Hattie. 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Penelope 



Viva 



Sea Lion. 



249 

 '243 



142 



227 



167 

 385 

 120 



264 

 485 

 173 

 300 

 300 

 461 

 364 

 223 

 303 

 48 



111 

 34 



106 

 05 

 91 



£17 



290 

 420 



10 

 3 

 4 



11 



8 

 4 

 7 



12 or 15 



B 

 About 



20 



7 

 14 



7 



6 

 10 

 4 

 3 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 6 

 10 

 2 



4 

 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 Between 

 15 and 20 

 9 

 7 



Loss 



per 



cent. 



3.7 

 1.7 



2.0 



2.4 



2.7 

 2.7 

 3.0 



2.3 



4.7 



2.4 

 2.0 



2.0 



e.8 



4.2 

 3.6 

 5.8 



2.3 



2.0 

 2.3 

 1.0 

 1.7 

 1.0 

 1.4 

 2.7 

 3.3 

 4.0 



3.6 



Approx- 

 imate 



Loss per 

 cent. 



3.0 

 1.5 

 1.1 

 8.0 



3.1 

 1.7 



Year. 



1890 



1891 



1892 

 1892 



1888 



1889 

 1890 

 1892 

 1891 



1892 



1891 



1892 

 1891 



1892 

 1S89 



1890 



1891 



1892 

 1891 



1892 

 1891 

 1892 

 1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1892 

 1892 



1892 

 1892 

 1892 

 1892 

 18f>2 

 1890 



1891 

 1892 



Remarks. 



Shipped as mate. 



Hunter. 

 Ditto, 

 First year 



hunter. 

 Master. 



as 



Master. 



First year as 

 hunter. 



Four other hunt- 

 ers on "Annie 

 E. Paint" lost 

 about same pro- 

 portion. 



Boat-steerer. 

 Figures given 

 are of seals 

 killed by hunt- 

 er. 



Hunter. 



Boat-steerer. 

 Figures given 

 are of seals 

 killed by hunt- 

 er. 



First year 



hunter. 

 Not out long. 



count kept. 



as 



No 



Master; bunted 



also. 

 Hunter. 

 Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Master, but 

 hunted as well. 

 Hunter. 

 Master. 

 Hunter. 

 Ditto. 

 Ditto. 

 Ditto. 



