958 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
41, Q. You think there would be about an equal number of cows and bulls in 
Beliring’s Sea?—A. Yes; I think that the bulls and cows are about equally divided. 
42. Q. It is well known among sealers that the old bulls keep their herds, and 
drive the ‘‘bachelor” bulls off ?—A. Yes. 
43. Q. Do you find many groups of bachelor bulls in Behring’s Seaf—A. We do 
not find them so much in groups as on the coast. . 
44, Q. Taking your whole catch for the past year, skin for skin, what percentage 
of females had you?—A. We had not more than 25 per cent. barren and bearing 
cows. That would leave us about 75 per cent. bulls. 
45. Q. 25 per cent. females, including barren cows?—A. Yes. 
46. Q. In the years before last would that percentage hold good?—A. I think the 
previous years would not differ very much. 
47. Q. In the months of February, March, and April you think that the females 
killed are more numerous than in Behring’s Sea?—A. I think so. We get a great 
many more grey pups in the winter. 
48. Q. Among all the hunters it is pretty well known that the average of loss by 
being hit would not exceed 3 to 5 per cent?—A. Yes; that is well known. 
49. Q. Wounding a seal so it escapes, you don’t consider that lost?—A. No; they 
carry a lot of shot, and the hunters don’t just shoot at it and leave it if it does not 
die on the spot, but give chase, and if wounded badly it has not much chance of 
getting away. 
50. Q. Considering the hazardous occupation of sealing, the men get very expert 
in it?—A. Yes; I have aman aboard who does not lose tive seals during the whole 
season. 
51. Q. Is it your opinion that the female seals with young are somewhat timid, 
and more on the alert than the old bulls?—A. Yes; they are. 
52. Q. That is one reason why the percentage of females is so small, I suppose ?— 
ARIES: 
53. Q. In Bebring’s Sea you say the percentage of loss would be more than on the 
coast?—A. I think the percentage of loss in Behring’s Sea is less than on the coast, 
because the sealers get more seals asleep in the sea. They seem to be right at home 
there, and not travelling about so much. 
54. Q. Have you at any time known any of our vessels (that is, Canadian vessels), 
registered Canadian vessels, landing on the seal islands for the purpose of raiding 
and killing seals?—A. I can conscientiously say that I have never known of any of 
our vessels landing there. 
55. Q. And have never heard our masters or sailors encourage that sort of prac- 
tice?—A. No. 
177 56. Q. Have you heard of any vessel having done so?—A. Yes; I have. 
57. Q. What vessels?—A. The ‘‘Mollie Adams,” ‘‘George R. White,” and the 
“O.S. Fowler,” of San Francisco, I heard, raided the Pribyloff Islands. 
58. Q. That fact is well known to the whole fleet?—A. Yes, Sir. 
59. Q. You were not in Behring’s Sea last season?—A. I was in, but didn’t stay 
long; I was ordered out of it. 
60. Q. You left as soon as ordered to leave?—A. I did; came direct home. 
61. Q. Who warned you?—A. The British steamer ‘‘ Pheasant.” 
62. Q. You didn’t try to seal after that?—A. No. 
63. Q. Or lowered your boats?—A. I didn’t lower any boats after receiving the 
order. 
64. Q. You have heard of some American schooners raiding Copper Island?—A, I 
have. 
65. Q. Do you know the McLean brothers?—A. Yes; and the ‘‘ City of San Diego” 
here, and the ‘‘Webster” and ‘‘J. Hamilton Lewis,” three American vessels who 
raided Copper Island. 
66. Q. You have no idea of why the seals were more plentiful along the coast last 
year than other seasons?—A. I have no idea. 
67. Q. There has been no practical theory advanced as to why last year the seals 
were more plentiful close in shore than in other years?—A. I have none, except that 
it is on account of their food fish. The seal follows the food. The earlier those fish 
strike along the coast, and the closer in shore, the earlier and closer to the coast we 
get the seals. 
(Signed) C. N. Cox. 
Sworn before me, this 18th day of January, A. D. 1892. 
(Signed) A. R. MILNE, Collector of Custms. 
Captain Alfred Bissett, master of the Canadian schooner ‘ Annie E. Paint,” of Vic- 
toria, British Columbia, being duly sworn, says: 
20. Mr. Milne-—How many years have you been engaged in sealing?—A. Two 
years; this is my third year—have been master, mate, and hunter. 
