whaling stations afford means of inspection and consequent control.  The only chance at present is that when whales become too scarce to pay they are let alone, and may revive a little.  The seals can be protected locally and ought to be.  The preponderance of females and young killed in the whelping season is a drain impossible for them to withstand under modern conditions of slaughter.  The difficulty of policing large areas simultaneously might be compensated for by special sanctuaries.  The Americans are protecting their seals by restrictions on the numbers, ages and sex of those killed; and doing so successfully.  The fur trade is open to the same sort of wise restriction, when necessary, to the protection of wild fur by the breeding of tame, as in the fox farms, and to the benefits of sanctuaries.  Marketable game, plumage and eggs can be regulated at out ports and markets.  And the extension of suitable laws to non-game animals, coupled with the establishment of sanctuaries, would soon improve conditions all round, especially in the interest of business itself.  No one wants his business to be destroyed.  But if Labrador is left without control indefinitely every business dealing with the products of wild life will be obliged to play the suicidal game of competitive grab till the last source of supply is exhausted, and capital, income and employment all go together.

3.  Indians and Eskimos.—­The Eskimos are few and mostly localized.  The Indians stand to gain by anything that will keep the fur trade in full vigour, as they are mostly hunters and trappers.  Restriction on the number of skins, if that should prove necessary, and certainly on the sale of all poisons, could be made operative.  Strychnine is said to kill animals eating the carcases even so far as to the seventh remove.  Close seasons and sanctuaries are difficult to enforce with all Indians.  But the registration of trappers, the enforcement of laws, the employment of Indians as guides for sportsmen, and other means, would have a salutary effect.  The full-bloods, unfortunately, do not take kindly to guiding.  Indians wishing to change their way of life or proving persistent lawbreakers might be hived in reserves with their wives and families.  The reserves themselves would cost nothing, the Indians could find employment as other Indians have, and the expense of establishing would be a bagatelle.  As a matter of fact, in spite of all the bad bargains having always been on the Indian side when sales and treaties were made with the whites, there is enough money to the credit of the Indians in the hands of the Government to establish a dozen hives and keep the people in them as idle as drones on the mere interest of it.  But good hunting grounds are better than good hives.