636 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



3. Tliat during the season of 1892 I secured sixty-seven seal-skins, 

 and only lost five during the same period. 



4. That I lost the said five seals by my own inexperience, as it was 

 during the first part of the season, and I had no experience at that time. 



5. I went up the coast on the schooner "Libbie," and at Kadiak I 

 transferred to the "Annie C. Moore," and went to the Asiatic side. 



6. I was both sealing-master [? sailing-master] and hunter. 



7. Good seal-hunters do not lose more than 5 per cent, of the seals 

 killed by them. 



8. Very few seals are badly wounded that afterwards die and are lost. 



9. In another way, besides my own experience I know if a seal is 

 wounded and dies, it will always float nntil it rots and sinks. 



10. When a seal is killed instantaneous it will sometimes sink. 



11. I went up the coast this year in the track of the seals and saw 

 but one dead one. 



12. The hunters remarked at the time of this occurrence that it was 

 a very rare thing to see a dead seal similar to this. 



13. If a seal is badly struck it will certainly be secured. 



14. It is a ijoor hunter's excuse when he says he killed a great many 

 seals that he did not get. 



15. On the way home this season we saw seals about 210 miles south- 

 east of the 172nd Pass. 



16. I do not know whether they came from the Commander or Priby- 

 loflt' Islands, but as I had heard from more than one person that there 

 was a rookery in the Aleutian Islands, I thought they might have been 

 from there. 



17. The skins taken on the Asiatic side seemed to be of better qual- 

 ity, but there is not any difference in the animals themselves. 



18. The hunters stated that there were as many seals this year as on 

 previous years, if not more. 



72 19. I never noticed whether male seals had teats or not. 



20. Our coast catch was about equally divided as to sex, and 

 the catch on the other side was also about equally divided. 



21. I killed more bulls than cows on the coast, and I got a few more 

 cows on the other side than I did bulls. 



22. Skins of old bulls are not worth much, and not many are killed. 



23. If the seals are protected on the islands, I do not see how killing 

 them at sea can lessen the numbers, as there will be more born each 

 year than are killed. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act respecting Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Colin Locke. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Colin Locke before me, a Notary 

 Public duly commissioned, and residing and i^ractising at the city of 

 Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 24th day of October, 

 A. D. 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) Arthur L. Beltea, 



A Notary Public in and for the Proviiice of British Columbia. 



