78 ALAiSKA INDUSTRIES. 



Inclosure with Special Agent Mclntyre's letter of March lo,1877 ; deposition of Zecar 



Oustujoff. 



Persoually appeared before me, William J. Mclntyre, assistant Treas- 

 ury agent United States (appointed under the act of March 5, 1872) at 

 St. George Island, this 5th day of September, A. D. 1874, Zecar Ousti- 

 gofif", who, upon being duly sworn, deposes and says: 



That on the 1st and 2d of Se])tember, A. D. 1874, I saw the crew 

 of the schooner Cygnet, as she lay at anchor a quarter of a mile 

 or thereabouts from the shore of said island of St. George, shoot and 

 kill fur seals from the deck of said vessel and skin said seals on board; 

 that the said crew did also shoot fur seals in the ^vater under the cliff 

 about 500 yards or thereabouts from the shore of said island ; and that, 

 to the best of my knowledge and belief, 34 fur seals were killed at the 

 times and in the manner before specified; that fur-seal skins to the 

 number of 35 were on the said 2d of September, A. D. 1874, returned 

 to William J. Mclntyre, the Government officer on said island, and 

 that I, by the direction of said William J. Mclntyre, did assist in the 

 counting and salting of said skins in the salt house of the Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company at St. George Island on the date last mentioned; 

 and further, that the said 35 fur-seal skins were killed by parties other 

 than the Alaska Commercial Company and without their consent, or 

 tlie cousent of the Government of the United States. 



Zecar Oustigoff. 



In testimony whereof I subscribe my hand and seal on the said 5th 



of September, 1874. 



Wm. J. MclNTYRE, |i'. >S.| 



Assistant Treasury Agent, United States Treasury Department. 



ISjiecial Agent Bryojit ; transmitting report of Assistant Agent Mclntyre 

 on management of affairs on St. George Island. 



Treasury Agent's Office, 



St, Paul Island, May 28, 1875, 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the affairs 

 of St. George Island. The steamer, when driven from her anchorage 

 here on the 14th instant, proceeded to St. George, where, finding land- 

 ing impracticable at the village, it went around on the opposite side, 

 and after landing Assistant Agent Samuel Falconer and Mr. George 

 F. Adams, subagent for the Alaska Commercial Company, she pro- 

 ceeded to Unalaska, with the freight for St. George on board. Eeturn- 

 ing thence, she arrived at St. George on the 24th instant, and after 

 discharging the portion of freight for that station, again left for this 

 island, arriving here on the morning of the 25th. The steamer brought 

 as passengers Father Inocent Shisenekoff, archpriest of the Russo- 

 Greek Church for this district of the Aleutian and seal islands; also, 

 Paul Shisenekoff, a former resident of this island, who has been to San 

 Francisco to be ordained as a resident priest here; also, Zachar Shis- 

 enekoff" and family, former residents here,Avho have been living at Una- 

 laska. All these are to reside here except the archpriest, who will 

 return to Unalaska after performing the necessary ceremonies for 

 installing his brother as pastor over the church here. Five native 

 laborers were also among the passengers, to do the labor while the 

 natiyes here arc employed in taking seals: also, one carpenter from 



