2 THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 



Personally appears before me A. B. Alexander, who, being duly 

 sworn, deposes and says: I am .'!7 years of age, a 

 a. B. Alexander, p. 352.citizen of Gloucester, Mass., and have been for six 

 years and still am an employe of the U.S. Fish Com- 

 mission as a fishery expert, being detailed for service on the Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Albatross. On March 29 I was detailed for temporary 

 service on the United States revenue steamer Corwin, and am still so en- 

 gaged. During my service on the Corwin I have cruised as far north as 

 Yakutat Bay. 1 have visited, with butfew ex< eptions, all the ports and 

 native villages from Dixons Entrance to and including Yakutat Bay. 

 I have personally conversed with the Indians, owners of vessels, seal 

 hunters, both native and white, and others engaged in the sealing busi- 

 ness. I have been in canoes and boats, and personally observed the 

 taking of seals by all methods practiced on this coast, and have thus 

 sought to familiarize myself in every way with the aquatic habits of 

 the seal, their habitat, method of capture, and all matters of interest 

 connected with the sealing industry. 



John Alexandroff and Feodor Barastoff, being duly sworn, depose 

 and say: We are respectively the priest and 

 John Alexandroff an d^itf of the ua tj ves at the settlement known as 

 v '^ Soldovoi, on Cooks Inlet, Alaska, and have lived 



in the immediate vicinity all our lives. We are by occupation hunters 

 of all fur-bearing animals, excepting the fur-seal. We have had no ex- 

 perience in hunting fur-seals, because we are informed that it is unlaw- 

 ful. Our occupation does not take us below the entrance to Cooks In- 

 let,- in a line from Cape Elizabeth on the peninsula to Cape Douglass 

 on the mainland opposite. 



Watson C. Allis, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 36 

 years old, an American citizen, residing in San 

 W. C. Allis, p. 97. Francisco, Cal., and by occupation an agent of the 



Fairbanks Scale Company, engaged in selling and 

 setting up scales. In the summer of 18S2, and again from the spring 

 of 1887 to the fall of 1889, I was assistant agent of the Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company upon St. Paul Island, and worked four sealing sea- 

 sons in charge of a gang of natives engaged in seal killing. 



Nicholas William Andersen, a resident of Afognak, being duly 



sworn, deposed and said: I have been in Alaska 



N. W. Andersen, p. 223. twenty years ; I have been a hunter eighteen years ; 



I have never hunted seals; I have been along the 



coast from Prince William Sound to Sennak Islands 



Andrew Anderson, being duly sworn, deposes and saith: I reside at 



St. Paul, Kadiak Island, Alaska Territory. I am 



Andreiv Anderson, p. 2t7.a sea-otter hunter by occupation, and am now 



master of a hunting schooner. While engaged 



in hunting during the past eighteen years I have killed more or less 



fur seals. 



C. H. Anderson, a citizen of the United States of America, 48 years 

 of age, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 

 C. H. Anderson, p. 205. a master -mariner by occupation, and reside in 

 San Francisco, Cal. I have been sailing in Alas- 

 kan waters since 1880. For seven years I cruised in the Unalaska dis- 



