(GonasUit.)

About  50  per  cent  are  lost  when  killed  with  a  shotgun,  and  a  larger
per  cent  when  ritle  is  used. (James  Gondowen.)

The  hunters  would  get,  on  an  average,  one  out  of  every  four  they
killed. (.James  Grymes.)

On  an  average,  I  think  the  hunters  will  save  about  one  out  of  three
that  they  kill,  but  they  wound  many  more  that  escape  and  die  after-
wards. (James  Harrison.)

Formerly  the  seals  were  gentle  and  the  approach  of  a  vessel  did  not
even  alarm  them,  but  when  firearms  came  into  use  it  so  frightened  them
that  they  had  to  be  shot  at  long  range,  entailing  a  loss  of  not  less  than
three  out  of  every  four  or  five  killed. (M. A. Healy.)

My  experience  convinces  me  that  a  large  percentage  of  the  seals  now
killed  by  shooting  with  ritles  and  shotguns  are  lost. My  estimate  would
be  that  two  out  of  every  three  killed  are  lost. Formerly  the  killing  was-
done  by  spearing,  and  in  later  years  it  was  learned  that  shooting  them
was  a  swifter  method  of  killing. At  the  start  the  hunters  were  inex-
perienced and  a  large  proportion  were  lost. (James  Kiernan.)

I  use  the  shotgun  for  taking  seal,  and  sometimes  I  lose  one  or  two  out
of  ten  that  I  kill. (James  Klonacket.)

I  have  made  it  mv  business  to  find  out  what  proportion  of  skins  of
seals  killed  are  really  brought  into  the  market,  and  from  the  informa-
tion which  I  obtained  from  the  sealers,  hunters,  and  those  owning  the
skins  I  learned  that  on  an  average  only  about  one  out  of  six  killed  was
secured,  varying  with  the  expertness  of  the  hunter. (George  Liebes.)

The  number  of  seals  actually  secured  to  the  number  killed  doe&
not  exceed  about  one  in  four,  or  about  one  is  taken  for  every  three
destroyed,  varying,  of  course,  with  the  skill  and  experience  of  the
hunters. (Isaac  Liebes.)

From  these  conversations  I  should  judge  they  did  not  secure  more
than  one  hall  of  the  seals  killed;  and  this,  I  think,  is  a  large  estimate
of  the  number  secured  (A. P. Loud.)

I  have  frequently  noticed,  in  the  harbor  of  Petropaulovsky,  that  the
natives,  in  killing  hair  seals,  are  only  able  to  obtain  one  animal  out  of
every  four  or  five  of  those  killed,  and  that  they  frequently  wait  about
four  days  for  the  bodies  to  be  washed  ashore. 