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Excerpt from Behring Sea Arbitration, Vol. 2: Appendix to Counter-Case of Her Majesty's Government
Captain R. 0. Lavender, four years master of sealing-schooners, and one year before this a hunter, that he might learn something of the business, says I have hunted every year myself, and have lost not more than 1 out of 20. I explained to the people on the 'corwin' [in 1892] that the reason some hunters were reported to lose more seals than others was that a hunter was paid according to the number of skins he got, and that killing seals was like killing birds or other animals - the poor hunter excused his lack of skill by saying that he killed the animal, and that it had sunk. The boat puller knows better than that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
