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schooner, the Lottie, and hunted about sixty miles off the Islands, and 

 secured about 700 seals himself, all of which were cows in milk. These 

 cows had milk in their breasts but had no pups in them. He returned to 

 Bering Sea in his own boat, the Lottie, in 1889, and also in 1891, 

 and sealed all the way from 100 to 180 miles from the St. George and 

 St. Paul Islands. The catch of those two years was about the same 

 as those caught in 1887, that is, mostly females that had given birth 

 to their young and were in milk. 



Louis Culler (ibid., p. 321 ). According to him the white hunters in 1888 

 must have been nearly all "green hands," for they did not secure more 

 than two or three out of every 100 shot. He was aboard the Otto in 

 1891, on board of which were two newspaper correspondents, King- 

 Hall, representing the New York Herald, and Mr. McManus, of Victoria. 

 They entered the sea through the IJnainak Pass and captured therein 

 about 40 seals, most all of which had milk in their breasts. After taking 

 these seals they returned to Victoria, British Columbia, about the 25th 

 of September. 



John Dalton was a sailor and made a sailing voyage to the North 

 Pacific and Bering Sea in 1885 on the schooner Alexander, of which 

 Captain McLean was master. They left Victoria in January and went 

 south to Cape Flattery and Cape Blanco, sealing around there about 

 two months, when they went north, sealing all the way up to the Bering- 

 Sea. They had between 100 and 300 seals before entering the sea. 

 Most all of them were females with pups in them. They entered the sea 

 about June and caught about 900 seals in there, two-thirds of which 

 were mother seals, with their breasts full of milk. He saw the milk 

 flowing on the decks when they skinned them. 



Alfred Dardean (ibid., p. 322), a resident of Victoria, British Columbia, 

 and during the two years preceding the making of his deposition, 

 which was in April, 1892, he had been a seaman on the schooner Mollie 

 Adams. They left Victoria, British Columbia, on the 27th of May, 1890, 

 aud commenced sealing up the coast, toward Bering Sea. They entered 

 Bering Sea through the TJnamak Pass about July 7, and sealed 

 around the eastern part of Bering Sea until late in the fall. They 

 caught over 900 seals before entering the sea, ami the whole catch dur- 

 ing that year wns 2,159 skins. Of the seals that were caught off the 

 coast fully ninety out of every one hundred had young pups in them. 

 The boats would bring the seals killed on board the vessel, and they 

 would take the young pups out aud skin them. If the pup was a good 



