. Fur seal arbitration. Proceedings of the Tribunal of arbitration, convened at Paris, under the treaty between the United States ... and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering sea . irth to their young, and return at intervals of from a few hours to several days to suckle ai^d uourish their young. The mother seal readily distinguishes her own offspring from that ofothers, nor will she permit the young of any other seal to suckle h
. Fur seal arbitration. Proceedings of the Tribunal of arbitration, convened at Paris, under the treaty between the United States ... and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering sea . irth to their young, and return at intervals of from a few hours to several days to suckle ai^d uourish their young. The mother seal readily distinguishes her own offspring from that ofothers, nor will she permit the young of any other seal to suckle have noti(;ed in tlie killing of young seals (pups) for food, in Novem-ber, that their stomachs were full of milk, although apj)arently themothers had not been on the islands for several days previous. 1 haveobserved that the male seals taken in the forepart of the season, orwithin a few days after their arrival at the islands, are fat and theirstomachs contain quantities of undigested fish (mostly cod), while thestomachs of those killed in the latter part of the season are empty;and they diminish in flesh until they k>ave the islands late in the season. I am of the opinion that while the female often goesisi^/s?oifo?d ** ^^S distances to feed while ging nourishment to her young, the male seals of two years old and over seldom,. -H RELATING TO ST. GEORGE ISLAND. 181 if ever, leave the islands for that purpose until they start on theirmigration southward. When the seals are on the breeding groundsthey are not easily friglitened unless they are too nearly approached,and even then they will go but a short distance if the cause of theirffight becomes stationary. It is impossible to estimate with any sort of accuracy the number ofseals on the Pribilof Islands, because of the seals being ^ .,, ^ . ,-, . .. 1 1 1 T J Impossible to esd- constantly m motion, and because the breeding grounds mate number of sealsare so covered with broken rocks of all sizes that the °° islan
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