THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 3 



trict, which embraces the Shumagin and Saimak Islands, the Aleutian 

 chain, the Pribilofs, Bristol Bay, and the eastern coast of Bering Sea 

 as far as St. Michaels. I have made four or five trips from Unalaska 

 to Attn and return, and eight or nine between Atka and Unalaska, 

 chiefly in spring and fall of the year. 



Peter Anderson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside in Vic- 

 toria, British Columbia; am by occupation a sea- 

 man and hunter; I have been engaged in the last Peter Anderson, p. 313. 

 three years in taking seal in the North Pacific 



Ocean and Bering Sea in capacity of boat-steerer. The vessels I was 

 employed on are as follows : Black Diamond, Ariel, and Umbrina, all 

 British schooners. 



H. Andricius, being duly sworn, deposes and says: My ago is 21 

 yeras; occupation, seaman; and live in Victoria, 



British Columbia. I first sailed in 1891 in the S.Andrioiua,' p. Sli. 

 vessel iV~. E. Faint, Bisit, master, as boat-steerer. 



Anna-tlas, chief of the Takou tribe of Indians, being duly sworn, 

 deposes and says: Have always been chief of this 

 tribe. Have never been seal-hunting in my life. Anna-Has, p. 254. 

 Myself and tribe go- to the coast as far as Wrangel 

 and trade with the Killisnoo Indians for oil. 



Nicoli Apokchee, Peter Abankook, Stephan Langwalic, Iyfym Monin, 

 Denis Malzoff, Wasyryon Ofkew, Pavel Ofkew, 



and Pavel Ringchook, being duly sworn, depose 2 ^ >C ° h A P° kcheeet al >P- 

 and say: That we are natives of Alaska, and re- 

 side at the settlement known as Fort Alexander, on Cooks Inlet, Alaska 

 Territory. We are, by occupation, hunters of fur-bearing animals, ex- 

 cepting the fur-seal, and have been engaged in this pursuit the greater 

 part of our lives, chiefly in this region. 



John Armstrong, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 

 50 years old, and reside in San Francisco. I was 

 employed in Alaska service in connection with John Armstrong, p. l. 

 the seal fisheries from 1808 to 1880, inclusive. 



During the first eight years of the time I was chief engineer of the 

 steamer plying between San Francisco and the seal islands and other 

 Alaska ports, and from 1877 to 1880, inclusive, as agent of the Alaska 

 Commercial Company, living almost constantly for the whole ten years 

 upon St. Paul Island. I always assisted in the seal-killing, and, in 

 common with all other employes on the islands, made the seals my study 

 and care. Everyone connected with the business, from the superin- 

 tendent to the humblest laborer, is, when at the islands, keenly alive to 

 every occurrence relating to the herd. There is nothing else but seals 

 to attract our attention when there, and the most trivial incidents in 

 regard to the rookeries, as well as the more serious ones, are noted and 

 discussed. 



Kerrick Artomanoff, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a 

 native Aleut, and reside on St. Paul Island, Prib- 



ilof Group, Alaska ; I was bom at Northeast Point, Kerrick Ariomanotf, p. 99. 

 on St. Paul Island, and am 07 years of age. I 

 have worked on the sealing grounds for the last fifty years, and am 



