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Udward CantiUion, four years' experience as hunter, says: "When a 

 seal is wounded I always chase it until there is no hoi)e of getting it, 

 and I do not think there are many wounded that get away and die 

 afterwards." 



Charles 0. Burns says that in 1892 he got nearly all the seals he 

 wounded — about ten. "Those that got away were slightly wounded, 

 and got off" to windward." 



James McRac says that in 1892 he wounded twelve or fifteen seals 

 that escaped, some of which might have died of their wounds. 



Lulce McGrath says that he wounded not more than ten seals that 

 escaped when taking 191. They were not badly wounded, and he 

 believes all lived. 



Joseph Br oion, five years a boat- steerer, says: "The hunters I was 

 with lost very few wounded seals." 



Charles Francis says that in 1890 he wounded a few seals, but got 

 most of them afterwards by chasing them. 



John Figuera thinks he wounded six or seven in 1891, but they got 

 away altogether. 



William F. Roland says that he wounds a few seals that escape, but 

 always gets those that are badly wounded, and that there was little 

 danger of those that escaped dying of their wounds. 



A. W. Roland says that very few seals that are badly wounded escape ; 

 they are followed up, and a second shot kills them. Those that escape 



are wounded very little, and soon get well. 

 13 John Matthews states that in 1892 he wounded a few seals, but 



got most of them. 



Niels Bonde was one year boat-steerer, for a good hunter part of the 

 time, and part of the time for a poor hunter. "The poor hunter missed 

 about half of those he fired at; he wounded a few." 



Andrew McGarva, five years' experience, says: "Not more than 1 in 

 50 seals are wounded so that they will die afterwards. It is easy to 

 tell when a seal is wounded by the blood, and it and the bubbles show 

 where it went down." 



Robert IS. Findley says: "There are very few seals that are wounded 

 badly and not got, for when I see that a seal is wounded I follow it, if 

 possible, until it tires out." 



Thomas Garner states that very few seals that escape are badly 

 enough wounded to die. 



John Kraft says that when seals are badly wounded, severely enough 

 to die afterwards, they generally get them — nearly always. 



Frank G. Warrington states that there are very few seals that are 

 badly wounded and escape, for when a seal is wounded it is followed, 

 and soon caught if it is badly wounded. 



G. C. Gerotc, five years' experience. There are not many wounded 

 seals get away and die, "for if a seal is not badly wounded it will get 

 away and live. If badly wounded it will be certainly got." 



Robert Hope believes that if a seal is not badly enough wounded to 

 be caught there is no danger of it dying aiterwards. "If a seal is 

 badly wounded we are surer of getting it than if it is killed at once." 



Abner Sinclair thinks that in taking 8G seals he wounded 8 or 9 that 

 got away — " not more than that. I don't think any of them were badly 

 enough wounded to die." 



