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shot, but I know I hat it is much oftener the case that they miss the 

 seal shot at." 



8 Joseph J. BecMngham, two years a boat-steerer, thinks there is 



not 1 seal in 100 killed lost by sinking. 



Captain Hiram B. Jones, five years in the sealing business, three as 

 master; hunts a good deal himself, but never kept any account of the 

 number lost by sinking, but says that it would not be more than 3 out 

 of 100. 



Henry 8. Broicne, with five years' experience as a hunter, says: 

 " Very few seals are lost by the hunter killing them and not securing 

 them." 



Captain Melville F. Cullen states that in 1891 the hunters on the 

 sealing- schooner "Carmolite," of which he was master, took 2,400 seals, 

 and he never heard the hunters speak of losing many. 



John Tou-nscnd, three years' experience, says: "I never lost a sleep 

 ing seal that I had killed, and it is very seldom that a seal will sink.' 



Captain Ahel Douglas, eight years' experience, says: "■ Out of all the 

 seals I have killed I remember of only one shot sleeping and sinking, 

 and nearly all the seals we get are sleeping seals." 



William T. Bragg, eight years' experience, says that sleeping seals 

 seldom sink when shot, and that two-thirds of the seals procured are 

 " sleepers." 



J. H. HaaJce, five years' experience as boat steerer and hunter, states 

 that a sleeping seal never sinks if shot in the head, and that he has 

 frequently seen them float five minutes. 



Andrew Mathison, seven years' experience, says: " More than three- 

 quarters of the seals I have got were ' sleepers.' I never lost many 

 sleepers by sinking, my losses were from ' travellers.'" 



Thomas H. Brown, four years' experience as a hunter, says there is no 

 chance of a seal sinking before it is got if only one is shot, but some- 

 times when two are together, and both are shot, one may sink while 

 the other is gone after; most of the seals he lost were lost in that way. 



Captain Albert C. Folger, eighteen years' experience as sea otter and 

 seal hunter, says: " 1 never have lost many seals, because if I cannot 

 get close enough to be sure of them I don't shoot at all." 



Neils Bonde, one year a boat-steerer, states : " I was part of the season 

 with a good hunter, and part with a poor hunter. The good hunter got 

 nearly all the seals he tired at; I am sure lie did not sink more than 

 three while 1 was with him. The poor hunter mivssed about half of 

 those he fired at; he wounded a few, which escaped; he sunk a few." 



George Heater states that his hunters lost very few seals — none to hia 

 knowledge — either when speared or shot. 



Thomas Garner, who in 1892 took 844 seals and lost 3, says: "I don't 

 think that any good hunter ought to lose more than that." 



Frank G. Warrington got this year 103 seals, and thinks he lost 10 or 

 12, but did not keep any count of them. 



G. C. Gerotv, five years' experience as hunter, says: " During the last 

 two years I have kept a strict account of the seals shot by me, and 

 would be willing to say, under oath, that I did not lose 1 in 18. Often 

 when I would get thirty or more seals in one day none would be lost, 

 but at other times I would lose quite a large percentage, but in the 

 whole season not more than 1 in 18 would be lost. Of these I aui not 

 sure that they were killed, but about that percentage is struck and 

 lost." 



