566 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



VI. — Statements relating to the talcing of Female Seals in Milk. 



J. I). Wai'ren says: "Up to the latter part of July I got a few seals 

 [in Ijcliring Sea] showing signs of milk when skinning them. I do not 

 think thCvSe females had ever been on the islands, but had lost their 

 pups at sea. I never saw a female killed in the sea having much milk 

 in them." 



Micajah Pi(?Awe?/, master of the "Henrietta," seized in Behring Sea in 

 181)2, states that of 420 seals taken by him about one-fourth were females 

 who had had their pups, and the milk had dried up. This was between 

 the 3rd August and the 4th Sei)ten)ber. 



W. 0. Muglu's, when in Behring Sea. in 1801, got after the 1st August 

 hardly any cows that showed signs of milk. He believes they had 

 pupped on the islands, and that the milk bad dried up. 



Joseph Brown states that after the 15th July a few cows in milk were 

 got in Behring Sea, but as the season grew later very few of these 

 were got. "In the sea we cannot tell whether a cow is barren or not." 



James Siteman found in Behring Sea that about two-thirds of the 

 females taken were breeding females showing milk — sometimes only a 

 trace, nearly dried up — others with a good supply. 



Captain George Scott has taken in Behring Sea many females in which 

 the milk had "Just about dried up." 



Michael Keefe states that his vessel, the "Beatrice," got 900 skins in 

 Behring Sea in 1890, between the 20th July and the 24th August. 

 Two- fifths of these were females, "none with a supply of milk, but a 

 good many showing milk dried up." In J 891 his vessel got 500 seals in 

 Behring Sea, of which nearly half were cows. "Most of the cows 

 showed dried milk in their breasts." 



John Gohurn saj^s that in Behring Sea "in the early part of the sea- 

 son some of the females would be in milk, but later on the milk would 

 be dried up." 



George Wells was in Behring Sea in 1890 and 1891; about two-thirds 



his catch were females, of which a few were in milk, but the most were 



dried up. "After July all the cows are dry of milk. It is only in the 



first three or four weeks in July that cows in milk in any noticeable 



quantity are got." 



23 William F. Roland states that of the females taken by him in 



Behring Sea, "more than half were in milk of varying quantities, 

 from a good supply to a few drops in cows about dried up. It is only 

 in the early part of the season in Behring Sea we get cows in milk, 

 and before the end of the season they are about all dried up." 



Arthur W. Roland says that in the first part of the season of 1891 

 he got a number of cows in milk, but that after the 1st August the 

 cows were nearly all dried up. 



John Matthercs took in Behring Sea, in 1891, a very few cows in milk; 

 some of them nearly dry. 



Andrew McKeil says: "Up to the 1st August [in Behring Sea] the 

 hunters get cows with milk in them, but after that date the milch cows 

 began to disa])pear, and very soon none are got in milk. By the 20th 

 August the milk in the cows had all dried up." 



James Gaudin states that females taken between the 20th July and 

 the 25th August in Behring Sea were nearly all dry, as if they were 

 through suckling their pups. 



