APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 549 



Captain J. E, Worth says tliat lie has never kept any count of his 

 losses made in shooting", but from 10 to 15 per cent, would certainly 

 cover those that would sink after death, and what would getaway mor- 

 tally wounded. 



Captain C. E. Moclder says that he would place the outside loss for a 

 good hunter at 5 per cent. 



W. F. Upson ssijs that 10 per cent, will fully cover a careful hunter's 

 loss. 



Frederick Croclcer thinks a hunter might on an average lose 5 to 10 

 per cent, of the seals shot. 



William Couriers thinks that putting it at the outside 5 per cent, is 

 the utmost loss for a good hunter. 



James W. Crew places the probable loss of seals by sinking at 5 per 

 cent. 



FranJc Moreau, five years' experience : " The loss from sinkin g through 

 being killed or mortally wounded would not be greater than 8 per cent., 

 which would cover the whole loss. The coast loss is smaller than the 

 Behring Sea loss, because, as a rule, those on the coast are fatter and 

 more buoyant, and a pregnant female will not sink as easily as another 

 seal." 



Peter Hammel says that he uses a gun almost always, but occasionally 

 a rifle, and loses by sinking very few seals, not more than 1 in 25. 



James Carthrat says: "I never was out in a boat with a seal hunter, 

 but have seen hunters killing near the vessel, and know that hunters 

 do not lose many by sinking, and a really good hunter loses very few, 

 not 5 in 100. I have seen my head hunter, William Thomas, on one 

 occasion in 1885, bring in seventeen pelts with seventeen shots." 



Peter Carlson says: "A good hunter ought not to lose from sinking 

 5 out of 100. I know that sealers often say that seals have sunk, when 

 in fact they have missed them." 



10 Clahapisim. — " Never lose a seal with the spear if it fastens, 



but lose many with the gun. A good hunter will lose only a few. 

 I am not a good shot with a gun." 



Walter Watt. — " With a spear I lose none that I fasten to 



I am only a middling shot with a gun, and would lose 1 or 2 in 10 



[shot at]." 



Chileta. — Was a short time on a schooner in 1892, and got thirty-nine 

 seals, fifteen with a gun, the rest with a spear; none were lost. "I 

 never fire when they are far off, and after shooting them use my spear 

 as a gaff." 



Charles HayiJcs says: "When we shoot seals we never lose 



them The reason we get the seals for sure is that a canoe 



is easier handled, and we are quicker than the white men. 



Oquaghu. — Never loses a seal he hits when using the spear. He says 

 he is a good shot with a gun, and seldom shoots unless he knows he is 

 sure of the seal. He does not believe he would lose more than 2 seals 

 in 10 he would fire at. 



Kach-hachah says that he is not a good shot, and would rather use a 

 spear than a gun. He lost a good many seals when he first began 

 using a gun, but does not now lose many. Never loses any he hits 

 with a spear. 



Charlie and Harry say that their experience has been the same as 

 Kach-Kach-ah's. 



