. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. IMPENDING FATE OF THE FUR SEAL 51 vessels are sent out from Yokohama, and other ports in Japan, under the Japanese flag, which hunt seals within three miles of the Pribilof Isl- ands! Canadian Sealers still hunt outside the protected zone, and kill many seals, annually. Up to this date, our government has done everything in its power to prevent the extermi- nation of the Fur Seal, and afford it a just meas- ure of protection. England fears that she can go no farther without
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. IMPENDING FATE OF THE FUR SEAL 51 vessels are sent out from Yokohama, and other ports in Japan, under the Japanese flag, which hunt seals within three miles of the Pribilof Isl- ands! Canadian Sealers still hunt outside the protected zone, and kill many seals, annually. Up to this date, our government has done everything in its power to prevent the extermi- nation of the Fur Seal, and afford it a just meas- ure of protection. England fears that she can go no farther without giving grave offence to of him who can take it. Patriotism, and the desire for the greatest good of the greatest num- ber, does not enter into their calculations. The American or Canadian pelagic sealer claims that the open sea is his, and he cares only for the $10 or $ that each raw skin is worth. England cannot reasonably be expected to Cjuarrel with Canada because of our desire to perpetuate our Seal herd, and derive from it a revenue of a mill- ion dollars a year,—which is the sum which the. Drawn by J. Carter Beard. THE H.\RP SEAL. Young and old specimens, showing changes in pelage at different periods. Canada. But in England, about $2,000,000 of capital are invested in the business of dyeing and dressing Fur Seal skins, and this work em- ploys—or did employ—between two thousand and three thousand operatives. It has always been impossible for Seal skins to be satisfactorily dyed and dressed in America. The insurmountable obstacle to the protec- tion of the Fur Seal is its fatal habit of going to sea, far from its hauling grounds, coupled with the belief of a large number of Canadians and Americans that a Seal at sea is the lawful prize Fur Seals would yield to-day, but for the slaugh- ter of 1,000,000 females at sea, and the murder or starvation of 1,000,000 pups, at sea and on shore. Just what events will make up the next and possibly the final chapter in the li
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