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of the Northwest catch from the skins of the Alaska catch by reason of 

 the fact that they are the skins almost exclusively of females, and also 

 that the fur upon the bearing female seals is much thinner than upon 

 the skin of the male seals, the skin of the animal while pregnant being 

 extended and the fur extended over a large area. 



Charles J. Hague (ibid., p. 207) : Capt. Hague is a citizen of the United 

 States and a master mariner by occupation. He had cruised steadily 

 in Alaskan waters since the year 1878. He had sailed principally about 

 the various parts of the Aleutian Islands, as far west as Attu, to which 

 island he had made about twenty trips from Unalaska, principally in 

 the spring and fall of the year. This is his testimony upon the point 

 now under consideration: 



The main body of the fur-seal herd bound to and from the Pribilof 

 Islands move through the passes of the Fox Islands, Ummak on the 

 east and the West Pass of Unmakon the west, being the limits between 

 which they enter Behring Sea in any number. I do not know through 

 what passes the different categories move or the times of their move- 

 ments. Barely see fur-seals in the Pacific between San Francisco and 

 the immediate vicinity of the passes. I think the fur->eal herds of the 

 Commander and Pribilof Islands are separate bodies of the fur-seal 

 species, whose numbers do not mingle with each other. In the latter 

 part of September, 1807, in the brig Kentucky, making passage between 

 Petropaulowski and Kodiak, I observed the Commander Islands seal 

 herd on its way from the rookeries. They moved in a compact mass or 

 school, after the manner of herring, and were making a westerly course 

 towards the Kurile Islands. The seals which I have observed on their 

 way to the Pribilof Islands do not move in large schools; they struggle 

 along a few at a time in a sort of a stream and are often seen sleeping 

 in the water and playing. There are no fur-seal rookeries in the Aleu- 

 tian Islands that I know of; in fact, I have never heard of any in the 

 region besides those on the several well-known Seal Islands of Bering 

 Sea. 



H. Harmsen (ibid.,i>. 442): Capt. Harmsen had been the master of 

 a ship since 1880 and engaged in the business of hunting seals in the 

 Pacific and Bering Sea since 1877. The following is an abstract from 

 his testimony: 



Q. In your opinion, do the seals on the Russian side intermingle with 

 those on the Pacific side or are they a separate herd? — A. No, sir; 

 they do not come over this way. They are not a different breed, but 

 they keep over by themselves; at least I don't think so. They follow 

 their own stream along there. There is so much water there where 

 there are seals, and so much where there are not. They are by them- 

 selves. 



Samuel Kahoorof (ibid., p. 214) : Kahoorof is a native of Attu Island, 52 

 years of age, and a hunter of the sea otter and blue fox. He had lived 



