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John Morris, five years' experience as mate and master, says: ''There 

 is no getting out of the fact that there are more males taken than 

 females." 



Neil Morrison, five years' experience, says: "In 1886 my catch was 

 about two-thirds bulls; no cows in pup, some in milk, and some barren 

 cows. In 1891 about half his catch on the coast (119) were females, 

 and of these not over 30 were in pup. In 1892, of 202 seals taken, about 

 65, or one-third, were females. They were about half in pup and half 

 barren and young females. On the Asiatic side in 1891 and 1892 about 

 half his catch were females. 



Henry 8. Broicne, five years' experience in North Pacific, states : " We 

 secured many more males than females this year [1892], and there have 

 been more males than females this year, but there were more in propor- 

 tion this year than any other." 



Captain Victor Jacobsen^s experience has been that about three out 

 of five seals taken on the coast and in Behring Sea are females. 



Captain James W. Todd, master of sealing-schooners every year but 

 one since 1886, remembers no year in which he took more females than 

 males on the coast. " Most of the females would be in pup, a number 

 barren, the balance being young females." In Behring Sea he got 

 rather more than half females." 



John Christian, two years' experience as hunter, got on the American 

 coast about equal numbers of males and females, and rather more 

 females than males on the Asiatic side. " Cows with young ate more 

 on the watch than others, and much harder to get; in fact, all females 

 are harder to get than males." 



Mattheio McGrath, one year's experience as hunter, thinks that more 

 than half the seals he took, both on the American coast and on the 

 Asiatic side, were females. 



Walter Heap, six years' experience as boat-steerer and hunter, says: 

 "My catch this year was over two-thirds young bulls, about 25 to 30 

 barren cows [total catch 168], the rest with young. The hunters I was 

 with in former years got about that number of barren cows. They 

 generally travel with young bulls. . . . Pregnant females are not so 

 easy to get as other seals, they don't sleep good ; seem always awake 

 and watching." 



Joseph BecMngham, two years a boat-steerer, states that from the 

 seals he has seen he would say that there are about as many females 



taken as males, but not more. 

 17 Captain Hiram B. Jones, five years' experience, thinks that both 



on the coast and in Behring Sea the vessels he has been on took 

 more females than males, but he never paid much attention to the 

 matter. "I have noticed that pregnant seals are very wild, and much 

 more on the alert than male seals, and the later in the season it is the 

 wilder they are." 



Captain Edicard Cantillion, four years' experience, says: "Until this 

 year my coast catch contained more females than males, but this year 

 there were a great many more males than females. In Behring Sea my 

 catch always contained more females than males." 



Charles Peters found more females than males in both 1891 and 1892, 



Henry Paxton, thirteen years' experience, says: "Last year [1891] in 

 Behring Sea my hunters got 330 seals. JNIost of these were young bulls. 

 This year on the coast they got 139, and there were only about 20 

 females in the lot." 



