4uy 
taken remains aLuut the same. “ According t(j statistics i'uinislied 
by Governor Hill, C.B., of Hewfoundland, to the Home Govern- 
ment, it appears that in 1871 the whole number of vessels employed 
in sealing was one hundred and forty-six sailing vessels and fifteen 
steamers, manned by 8850 men. The exports of Seal products for 
that year from Newfoundland Avere G943 tons of oil, valued at 
$972,020, and 480,262 skins A’alued at $480,202, the catch for the 
year being 500,000 Seals, Avhich were sold for the aggregate sum of 
$1,452,282. The single steam-ship ‘ Commodore,’ of Harbour 
Grace, brought in 32,000 Seals, valued at £24,000 sterling.”* In 
the year 1873, the last year quoted by JMr. Allen, the catch aa'us 
520,000 Seals. 
As to the mode in AA'hich the Newfoundland scaling is prosecuted, 
and the dangers from drifting ice, fog, and storm, to Avhich the 
ships are exposed, I\lr. Carroll gives sonre interesting particulars, 
Avhich it is impossible to rpiote here ; but as a specimen of the 
Avasteful destruction of life AAdiich annually takes place, a short 
description of a process technically knoAvn as “ panning,” is too 
suggestive of the results Avhich must of necessity folloAv to be 
omitted. “No greater injury,” says Mr. Carroll, “can possibly be 
done to the Seal fishery, than that of bullving Seals on pans of icc, 
by creAA's of ice hunters. Thousands of Seals are killed and bulked, 
and never seen afterwards. 'When the men come up AA'ith a large 
number of young Seals, that cannot get into the Avater, oAving to 
the ice being in one solid pan, they drive them together, selecting 
a pan surrounded Avith rafted ice, on Avhich thousands of Seals arc 
placed one over the other, perhaps fifteen deep. A certain number 
of men is picked out by the ship-master to pelt and put on board 
the bulked Seals, Avhilst others are sent to kill more. It often 
happens that the men are obliged to go from one to ten miles 
before they come up Avith the Seals again, and very often the jnen 
pile from five hundred to tAvo thousand in each bulk, Avhich bulks 
are from one to tAvo miles apart ; care is also taken that Hags are 
stuck up as a guide to direct the men Avhere to find such bulked 
Seals. So uncertain is the Aveather, and precarious the shifting 
* Tilts valuation appears too liigli. .1’2,0()0 Seals Avould yield about 320 
tons of oil, Avorth say £28 per ton ; the skins Avould average about four 
sbillings each, in all £1.5,300. 
