548 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Captain James Gaudin, master of steam-ship "Quadra," was, in 1887, 

 master of the sealing-sclioouer "Ada." His hunters took 1,900 seals, 

 and from their reports he knows that less than 5 per cent, of the seals 

 killed were lost. "Ten or twelve were shot from the schooner, to get 

 which a boat had to be lowered; none were lost, so they must have 

 floated two or three minutes at least." 



Captain S. W. Buckman, now a pilot at Victoria, was, in 1889, captain 

 of the sealing schooner "Ariel." He says: "I do not think that more 

 than 1 out of 10 or 15 seals killed is lost at the very outside. While I 

 was out a good many seals were shot from the schooner, and they were 

 nearly always got, although it takes some minutes to lower a boat. I 

 have very seldom seen them sink. Hunters will sometimes shoot three 

 or four seals before picking them up." 



Robert Hope was a boat-steerer in 1891, and says that during the entire 

 season but one seal was lost by the boat he was in. 



Captain WiJliam Petithas been sealing for seven years, generally with 



Indian hunters. "They lose practically no seals, whether they use a 



gun or spear. . . . Every year seals are shot from the schooner, 



and tHey are almost always got. There is time to unlash and lower a 



canoe before they sink." 



9 Captain C. F. Dillon has been sealing every year since 1885, 



and says: "I have been out with hunters who used spears, and 

 those who used guns. No seals are lost when speared, and from the 

 whole of my experience I would estimate that not more than 5 per cent, 

 of the seals that are shot and killed are lost." 



Captain E. C. Le Blanc says that on the way up the coast in 1892, 

 "about a dozen seals were shot from the schooner; to get these a boat 

 had always to be lowered; only one was lost." 



Captain Thomas O^Leary says: "A good many seals each season are 

 shot from the schooner, but they are never shot at unless they are 

 pretty sure of getting them." 



Captain Henry F. ^ieu-ard, five years' master of sealing- vessels, says 

 that he makes it a rule never to permit a seal to be shot at from the 

 schooner unless certain that it would be got, "so that none shot in that 

 way are ever lost. It takes three or four minutes to lower a boat, but 

 the seals float long enough to allow us to get them." 



Captain Micajah Picliney says : "From what I heard from the hunters 

 they lose very few seals by sinking. . . . Now and then I heard 

 one of the white hunters say he had lost a seal, but how I don't know." 



Captain W. 0. Huyhes says that the loss of seal was always talked 

 over by his hunters, and that he was sure to hear of it. Now and then 

 a hunter reported having lost a seal, but the total loss was very small. 



William Hermann, seven seasons a seal-hunter with gun and rifle, 

 says that he does not lose more thau 5 seals in 100 he gets. 



Captain George Scott states that, in putting the loss at 5 per cent., he 

 gives the advantage to the loss. 



Georye Wester, six years' experience, estimates the number of killed 

 and wounded seals that are lost at 3 per cent. He has made a special 

 study of the number lost. 



Captain Charles Lutjens states that in his opinion 5 per cent, will 

 cover the loss of seals after being shot by a good hunter. 



Charles Hartiiren has always hunted with a shot gun and a rifle, and, 

 states that he would not lose 5 seals in 100 he would kill or mortally 

 wound. 



