BRITISH MAMMALS 
Unless successfally stalked and killed instantaneously while taking his 
siesta near the water's edge, he is seldom secured. As a rule it is 
useless to shoot them while on the surface of the sea, as they sink 
almost immediately, and .when this happens in deep water they are lost, 
A successfiil method of capturing this seal, which now seems to be 
seldom practised, was to fix a strong net under water at the entrance of 
the caverns frequented by the animals, when they were often caught in 
the toils as they tried to escape seawards. 
