The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-04
SECTION TWO.

the Columbia and its tributaries in washington and
Oregon occurred, the HudsOn's Bay people saw clear
were to remain under the protection Of the British
flag. Victoria her existence TO this move. AS
pany had but one rival who accomplished more. and
that the East India company. which won India
British empire. The HudsOn's Bay company is
Stores in Canada No Mace is too large or too small
for it TO operate in 1t has one post over 200 miles
of Dawson and that is 1000 miles north
of Montreal This last named post is about 200 miles
the north pole than the nOrthernmOst Tip of
Newfoundland The man who runs this store FOR the
company never includes palm lear fans straw hats
orders and he never has to have "out Of sea-
som sales on ear-rnuffs. They are staple article
The home Office of the Hudson Bay company is stin
at No Lime street. London. The stockholders began
drawing dividends in 1911, and the venerable organ
cation still yields its annual profits Every English
man is justly proud of its great record
Nlctorias more recent claim attention arose
from lts Deng the great port for sealers When the
the hunters from all United States ports put to-
gether The industry its best the early COS
and the fleet of vessels haiing from Victoria
time numbered sixty There fOrty-twO YES
haTbOr here, with nothing do. They are dead cap
ital to their owners. The Victorass st very Bit
grounds. They assert that a rank injustice was
heaped upon them by their government allowing the
elected and their IivaIfbood faleT, a,,s,, T, tI
that one government the other either Brit
vessels and let them out of the deal v,itIo51 los Of
selling out
They still engage in what is called coast sealing.
estng, most humane and most skilIful. The season
begins in January, when the fur bearers are returning
their rookeries in the north. They are found anv
where from ten to 200 miles from the coast Each
schooner viii nave seven small boats. each manned
by three men. two to pull the oars and one hunter
The white hunters high grade shotgun. and the
Indians spear The seals live on the surface Of the
water except when they feeding The hunters try
to surprise them when they are asleep seal shores
IKE a drunken TAT man. 1t has two pastures in the
water when asleep one in natural position. with
only its head showing above the surface and the other
on lls sue win It's mead protected by one hipper.
From distance the first position makes the seals
head look like a skull floating water and
his prey ne looks carefully whether to prepare
for a skull cap or jug handle shot He aims for
lu a only sels one cn@nce' because the seal goes
through the water faster than horse gets over
many times faster than the sUifest ships afoat They
are very quick. The nimbe salmon through the
short little PRAYER observe tber 1org I+i.- ny i- s
and you viii then understand why the salmon has no
show in a game of lodging where his life e sfl-j
against his adversary's appetite for fresh fish.
When a seal strikes a school of salmon it is as
whale happens to be in the vicinity the finn E soC,7
over with Mr. Seal A killer whale likes seal meat
every bit much a seal likes salmon Nor is he
any more backward about helping himself 10 his ia
Vorite FOOD than IS the seal Down the salmon.
then down goes the seal making another case of tit
seven or eight seals feels like he has had square
meal Many lady loses chance for sealskin sack
by these oft repeated ocean tragedies.
The wholesale way of taking the seals to club
them TO death while they on the shore during the
breeding season Tt terribly brutal proceeding AS
stated before, the seal is quick a and it re-
qulres very sldlful blow to dispatch him with one
stroke. 1t is very pitful TO see them nounderng
around in dazed helpless condition maybe with one
eye Knocked out their human assaiant standing over
them watching his chance to swing his club again AS
many as 1000 seals are sometimes butchered in a
single day With the first appearance of cold weather
the seals take to the water They frequently disappear
IN a single night Nothing is known of their where
abOuts until they appear off the the following
season, headed for the north again Where they so
and what they do the another uns0Ivad
mystery of the deep FREDERIC j. HASKIN.