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George Roberts, with four years' experience, says: "Wounded seals, 

 as far as my experience goes, are either captured, or live if they 



escape." 



Maffhew Ryan, ten years' experience, states: "We lose very few by 

 wounding tliem and having them die — uone worth speaking of." 



William T. Bragg, eight years' experience, says: "The chances of 

 getting a seal that is badly wounded are good." 



Captain Otto Bucliholz, three years' experience as master mariner, 

 hunted a little in 1892, and took forty-eight seals; he wounded four 

 that escaped, but does not think that any of them would afterwards die. 



Captain William O'Leary, seven years' experience as master mariner 

 and hunter, says: "I do not believe that many seals are badly wounded 

 and die afterwards, and are so lost, for when a seal is wounded and 

 lives a little while afterwards it will always float when it does die." 



William Cowie, one year's experience as hunter, took, in 1892, 106 

 seals, and wounded 10 or 15 that got away; "of these very few would 

 die." 



Joseph Brown, one year's experience as hunter, wounded in 1892 

 twenty or twenty-five seals that got away, and thinks that not half-a- 

 dozen would die. 



William Be Witt, four years' experience as hunter, says: "Very few 

 seals are wounded. Those badly wounded I always get, while those so 

 lightly wounded that they escape do not afte-wards die." 



Captain Langhlin McLean, seven years master of a sealing-schooner, 

 states that "there are very few seals indeed that are wounded badly 

 enougli to die afterwards. A seal is sometimes stunned and will sink, 

 and when gaffed and brought on board they come to and are all right, 

 and I do not doubt that some that are reported lost come to and live." 



John R. ffaaJce, five years' experience — two years a boat-puller, three 

 years a hunter — says he considers himself a fair average seal-hunter, 

 and is sure that he does not strike many seals that are wounded and 

 afterwards die; "in fact, there are very few such instances." 



James Shields, six years' experience as hunter, says: "In calm weather 

 we are almost certain to get a wounded seal, but when the weather is 

 rough and the seal goes to windward, one is sometimes lost, when the 

 boat cannot be pulled against the wind and sea, but very few are lost 



in this way Wlien a seal sinks there is a streak of blood in 



the water that shows it. This year [1892] I got 308 seals, and there were 

 not more than two or three that were wounded that would die after- 

 wards of wounds. I have noticed that a wounded seal is like a deer 

 and some other animals, it gets better after being shot, and often when 

 you think one is to be surely got it revives and goes away. If a seal is 

 badly wounded I consider it as good as got, for it either gets worse or 

 better; if the former, we are sure of it; if the latter, he will get away 

 and get well." 



Oscar Scarf, six years a hunter, says : " T generally get the seals I 

 wound, and if a seal is wounded lightly he gets away; if badly wounded 

 I always get it. Very few, if any, wounded seals that escape afterwards 

 die." 



Fredericlc W. Strong, four years' experience, says: "I do not think 

 many seals I wounded escaped and afterwards died. I remember only 

 one or two instances of wounding a seal and it escaping, and these were 

 slightly wounded." [Has taken 930 seals.] 



