 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 506 Seiten
...Otters, 12,000 Beaver, 2,500 Land Otters, Foxes, Martens, &c. &c. &c. 20,000 Sea Horse Teeth. Some twenty or thirty years ago, there was a most wasteful...female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head. This imprudence, as any one might have expected, proved detrimental in two ways. The race was almost extirpated... | |
 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 498 Seiten
...Otters, 12,000 Beaver, 2,500 Land Otters, Foxes, Martens, &c. &c. &c. 20,000 Sea Horse Teeth. Some twenty or thirty years ago, there was a most wasteful...female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head. This imprudence, as any one might have expected, proved detrimental in two ways. The race was almost extirpated... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 610 Seiten
...sea otters, 12,000 beave'r, 2,500 land otters, foxes, martens, <fcc., 20,000 sea horse teeth. Some twenty or thirty years ago, there was a most wasteful...female, were indiscriminately knocked on the head. This imprudence, as any one might have expected, proved detrimental in two ways. The race was almost extirpated... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 594 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...(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 - 1867 - 116 Seiten
...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 - 1867 - 48 Seiten
...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 - 1875 - 448 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1884 - 260 Seiten
...for so long a time head of the Hudson's Bay Company, " there was a most wasteful destruction of this 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 race was almost extirpated,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1889 - 498 Seiten
...yonng and old, male and female, wero indiscriminately knocked in the head. This imprndence, as any one might have expected, proved detrimental in two...The race was almost extirpated ; and the market was glntted to snch a degree, at the rate for some time of 200,000 skins a year, that the prices did not... | |
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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... 
