THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 7 



on the 17th of January in the British schooner Pioneer, Morgan, 

 master. I shipped as a deck hand. 



We, the undersigned, natives, residents of St. Paul Island, who have 

 for a number of years been engaged in the busi- 

 ness of sealing on these islands, having been pres- ^po^Borudahaffshy 

 ent and beard the testimony of Anton Melove- e a '' p ' 

 doff and Noen Mandregin, as above given, do hereby concur substan- 

 tially in their statements. 



Apollon Borudakaffsky. 



Aggie Kushin. 



Nicoli Krukoff, Second Chief. 



Bowa-chup, being duly sworn, deposes and says : I am a native Makah 

 Indian, and reside on the reservation at Neah 

 Bay, State of Washington, United States of Amer- Bowa-eMp, p. 376. 

 ica, and am about 40 years of age. I have been 

 engaged in seal hunting ever since I was a boy. Until about ten or 

 twelve years ago, I used to seal along the coast in large canoes from 

 10 to 18 miles from Cape Flattery and in the Straits of San Juan de 

 Fuca. At first I was a paddler, and afterwards I became a spearman. 



John Andrew Bradley, being duly sworn, deposes and saith: I re- 

 side at Coal Point, on Kachekmak Bay, Cook's 

 Inlet, Alaska, and have lived in this immediate j. a. Bradley, p. 227. 

 vicinity for the past four years. I Lave traveled 



extensively along all the Northwest Coast during the past twenty-two 

 years, and am well acquainted with it. I have had no personal prac- 

 tical experience in fur-seal hunting, but at the same time have a fair 

 knowledge of the industry. 



Thomas Bradley, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I re- 

 side in San Francisco. My occupation is that of 

 a seaman. In 1884 I shipped on the Maggie Ross TUos. Bradley, p. 406. 

 as a boat puller for a sealing voyage to the North 

 Pacific and Bering Sea. 



William Brennan, being first duly sworn, de- 

 poses and says : I am 37 years of age ; was born in William Brennan, p. 357. 

 London; am by occupation a seafaring man; and 



reside at Seattle, in the State of Washington. I have spent the best 

 years of my life in the close study of the denizens of the sea, including 

 seals and the modes of capturing them, such as seafaring men bestow 

 upon matters in which they are interested participants. I first went 

 to sea in November, 1869, and have been connected with shipping mat- 

 ters for twenty-three years. Passing my examination as second mate 

 in London in 1874, I went to Australia, thence to China and Japan, 

 remaining in Japan several years. * * * 



I have since followed the sea as sailing captain, 

 pilot, and quartermaster on vessels sailing out of William Brennan, p. 358. 

 Victoria, British Columbia. 



Henry Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and 

 says : I am 42 years of age, and reside in Victoria, Henry Brown, p. 317. 

 British Columbia. I am by occupation a seaman. 



On or about February 21, 1890, I shipped as an able seaman, but did 

 service as a boat steerer on the sealing schooner Minnie, which cleared 



