652 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



AndreiD Mathison, seven years' experience as a linnter, says : " Very 

 few wounded seals die. If badly wounded I always get them ; if lightly 

 •wounded they escape and easily get well." 



WiUiam Shields, who has gained his livelihood for the past seven 

 years as a seal-hunter, says: "If a seal is wounded I chase him, of 

 course, for as long a time as possible, and I am sure that the number of 

 seals that are badly enough wounded to die is very small indeed. 1 

 know that if they are not badly enough wounded to be got they will 

 very likely live." 



12 Charles A. Williams, five years a hunter, thinks that very few 



wounded seals are lost. "You can always tell by the blood in 

 the water whether you have really wounded a seal." 



Colin Locke, a hunter in 1892, says: "Very few seals are badly 



wounded that afterwards die and are lost If a seal is 



badly struck it will certainly be secured." 



Emil Eamlose, seven years' experience — five as hunter — says that 

 " very few escape badly wounded, as when wounded we chase them 

 hard, and, if they are at all badly hurt, are sure of getting them." 



Isaac 0-Qulnn, two years a hunter, got 160 seals in 1891, and did not 

 lose any by sinking; in 1892 he took 210 seals and wounded 2 that 

 escaped him. 



Captain Robert McKiel, who has been master of sealing vessels since 

 1887, says "there are some seals badly wounded that die afterwards, 

 but the number is very small ; if they are that badly wounded the 

 hunters are sure to get them." 



Edward Pratt Miner, many years a hunter and sailing-master, says: 

 "A good hunter wounds very few seals he does not get. I told Captain 

 Lavender [a United States Agent] that not more than 1 seal in 100 

 that were crippled by a good hunter and not got would die afterwards." 



Joseph Rail, two years' experience, got, in 1891, 96 seals, and in 

 1892, 147 seals, and says: "I wounded some seals — got most of them, 

 and those that escaped were not wounded badly." 



August Beppen, engaged in the sealing business for the past nine 

 years, says: " When a seal is wounded the chances are ten to one that 

 it is secured by the hunters. If a seal is wounded it is chased until it 

 is secured. I have chased a seal for half-an-hour, after I had wounded 

 it, before 1 secured it." 



Neil Morrison, one year a boat-steerer, and four a hunter, says: 

 "When I wound a seal badly I always, in fair weather, get it; if 

 slightly wounded it will escape, and no doubt get well." 



Captain Victor Jacohsen, eleven years' master of sealing-vessels, and 

 hunting every year, says: " Very few seals are so badly wounded that 

 we don't get them, and they then die afterwards, for if we don't get 

 them they are not likely to be badly enough wounded to die. A hunter 

 feels worse about losing a seal he has killed than if he misses fifty." 



John Christian, two years? experience, thinks a few seals might be 

 badly wounded and escape, and that a few of them might die. 



Matthew McGrath took 124 skins in 1892, and states that he did not 

 wound more than five or six seals badly enough to cause their deaths 

 afterwards, and is not sure that any so wounded would die. 



Walter Heay, in taking this year 168 seals, did not wound more than 

 five, " some of which may have died." 



