 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1847 - 610 pages
...follows : 10,000" fur seals, f.OOO sea otters, 12,000 beave'r, 2,500 land otters, foxes, martens, <fcc., 20,000 sea horse teeth. Some twenty or thirty years...ways. The race was almost extirpated ; and- the market waa glutted to such a degree, at the rate for some time of two hundred thousand skins a year, that... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1847 - 594 pages
...follows : 10,000 fur seals, 1,000 sea otters, 12,000 bearer, 2,500 land otters, foxes, martens, «Str., 20,000 sea horse teeth. Some twenty or thirty years...ago, there was a most wasteful destruction of the fur sea], when young and old, male and female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head. This imprudence,... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1851 - 782 pages
...twenty-fire. (Signed) STRATFORD CANNING. The Co i'NT DE NESSELRODE. PIERRE DE POI.ITICA. (LS) IX.—FUR SEALS. Some twenty or thirty years ago there was a most wasteful...male and female, were indiscriminately knocked on the bead. This improvidence, as every one might have expected, proved detrimental in two ways. The race... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Alaska - 1867 - 48 pages
...moving, they become the prey of the hunter. Early m the century there was a wasteful destruction of them. Young and old, male and female,' were indiscriminately knocked on the head for the sake of their skins. Sir George Simpson, who saw this "improvidence with ah experienced eye,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Alaska - 1867 - 116 pages
...they become the prey of the hunter. Early in the century there was a wasteful destruction of them. Young and old, male and female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head for the sake of their skins. Sir George Simpson, who saw this improvidence with an experienced eye,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 448 pages
...they become the prey of the hunter. Early in the century there was a wasteful destruction of them. Young and old, male and female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head for the sake of their skins. Sir George Simpson, who saw this improvidence with an experienced eye,... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Animal products - 1877 - 458 pages
...North American animals in their native haunts, speaking of the fur seal in former times, says :— " Twenty or thirty years ago there was a most wasteful...female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head. This improvidence, as every one might have expected, proved detrimental in two ways. The race was almost... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office - Bering Sea controversy - 1890 - 570 pages
...Simpson, of the Hudson Bay Company, in his "Overland Journey Round the World/' 1841-42, p. 130, says :" Some twenty or thirty years ago there was a most wasteful destruction of the seal, »hen young and old, male and female, were indiscriminately knocked in the head. This imprudence,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - Sealing - 1890 - 108 pages
...of the Hudson Bay Company, in his " Overland Journey Round the World," 1841-'4a, p. 130, says : ;< Some twenty or thirty years ago there was a most wasteful destruction of the seal, when young and old, male and female, were indiscriminately knocked in the head. This imprudence,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - Sealing - 1890 - 112 pages
...of the Hudson Bay Company, in his " Overland Journey Round the World," 1841-'42, p. 130, says : -' Some twenty or thirty years ago there was a most wasteful destruction of the seal, when young and old, male and female, were indiscriminately knocked in the head. This imprudence,... | |
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Some twenty or thirty years ago, there was a most wasteful destruction of the fur seal, when young and old, male and female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head. This imprudence, as any one might have expected, proved detrimental in two ways. The... 
