562 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



G. C. Gerow, five years' experience as hunter, says that about tvro- 

 thirds of his catch on the coast and in Behring- Sea were females. " In 

 a good season's catch there would be about 100 to 150 barren females." 



Captain James Gaudin sealed in Behring Sea in 1887 between the 

 20th July and 25th August. He says that the seals taken by him Avere 

 chiefly females, "but nearly all were dry as if they had had their pups, 

 but were through suckling them." 



Charles Blomquist was boat-steerer in 1891 in one of the boats of the 

 "Sea Lion," and skinned nearly all the seals taken by the hunter he was 

 with, and saw the others. There were about 14 or 15 females among 

 the 149 seals taken. 



Robert Hope was a boat-steerer on the "Mascotte" in 1891, and thinks 

 that more females than males were caught, but no record was kept. 



Captain William Petit says : " I have not got more than 130 females 

 out of about 660 seals I have taken this year. Among the females 

 taken this year were a good many barren females. The last day's 

 catch was four barren females and four males." [Declaration made 16th 

 June]. "Among the grey pups we take I have never found a female. 

 I have been examining them for five or six years, and have never found 

 a female." 



Captain C.F.Dillon says: "This year I have taken more females 



than males; about three-fifths of my catch were females 



There were a great many barren cows among the seals I took this year." 



Abner Sinclair declares that he has been sealing one year, and that 

 about half the seals he got were males, "a few more than half per- 

 haps." He noticed two barren cows among the eighty-six seals he got. 



William Edivards, two years' experience, took in 1892 about as many 

 males as females; among the 138 seals he got there were few barren 

 females. 



Maurice Edwards^ two years' experience, says that about half his 

 catch in 1892 were females and half males. 



George F. French, three years' exi)erience, says : " Out of the 143 seals 

 taken by me this year between 30 and 40 were barren ; not more than 

 60 of the seals taken by me were females; more than half were barren 

 cows. 1 have been examining all the seals taken by me this year. I 

 think the percentage of cows to bulls and barren cows to those in pup 

 was about the same during the past two years as it was this year. " 



20 Peter Jolibis, three years' experience, says : " Of my catch this 



year [1892] there are many more males than females 



I have not killed more than thirty females. I don't notice any differ- 

 ence in the proportion of males to females along the coast, but we get 

 more females in Behring Sea than outside, I think." 



Captain Thomas CLeary, master mariner and hunter, thinks there 

 were more females than males in his catch both in 1891 and 1892. 



Luke McGraw, two years' experience, says that in 1891 more than 

 half his catch were females; in that year he noticed a good many bar- 

 ren cows among those taken. 



Frank Moreau, six years' experience, thinks there may be 80 per 

 cent, of the seals taken on the coast females, and of the females 

 perhaps 75 per cent, carry pups, and in Behring Sea about the same 

 percentage of cows are in milk. 



P. Carlson found on the cost going north mostly young bulls, but as 

 he got towards Cape Cook he found more cows. "Our catch was half 

 cows — half on the coast as regards male and female." 



