The  proposed  regulations  still  allow  at  least  five  weeks'  sealing  in
Bering  Sea;  but,  say  the  regulations,  the  hunters  can  only  use  spears
in  Bering  Sea,  thereby  intimating  that  spears  are  less  effective  than  the
shotguns  allowed  in  the  North  Pacific,  and  that  an  additional  safeguard
has  therefore  been  provided  in  Bering  Sea.  .lust  why  the  shotgun  is
pernicious  in  Bering  Sea  and  is  not  in  the  North  Pacific  is  not  indicated:
but  if  we  turn  to  the  testimony  of  the  Northwest  Coast  Indians,  who
ship  on  the  schooners  and  accompany  them  to  Bering  Sea,  we  find  that
they  claim  that  they  can  do  better  work  with  the  spear  than  with  the
shotgun.  The  latter  makes  the  <rame  wild,  while  the  former  does  not.
The  spear  makes  no  noise,  and  they  are  thus  able  to  take  seal  after  seal
as  they  sleep  on  the  water,  and  get  all  in  sight,  while  at  the  sound  of  a
gun's  discharge  the  comrades  of  the  captured  or  wounded  seal  swim
away.
