THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPEBIENCE. 15 



Washington C. Coulson, having. been duly sworn, deposes and says: 

 I am captain in the United States Revenue Cut- 

 ter Service. At present I am in command of the W. C. Coulson, p. 414. 

 United States revenue cutter Hush. I was at- 

 tached to the United States revenue cutter Lincoln, under the command 

 of Capt. C. M. Scammon, during the year 1870, from June until the close 

 of the year, as a third lieutenant, and have been an officer in the reve- 

 nue service ever since. In the month of that year I was in the Bering 

 Sea and at the seal islands of St. Paul and St. George. I went on 

 shore at both islands and observed the seals and seal life, the method oi 

 killing, etc. * * * During the seasons of 1800 and 1891, I was in 

 command of the revenue cutter Rush in Bering Sea, and cruised exten- 

 sively in those waters around the seal islands and the Aleutian group. 

 In the season of 1890 I visited the islands of St. Paul and St. George 

 in the months of July, August, and September, and had ample and 

 frequent opportunities of observing the seal life as compared with 1870. 



Leander Cox, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 52 

 years of age. lam by occupation a marine engi- 

 neer. I reside in San Francisco. I first went to Leander Cox, p. 416. 

 the Bering Sea in 1871, and have been going there 



annually since 1874. During the winter time I have been employed 

 as engineer on a passenger vessel running between here and Victoria, 

 British Columbia, making occasional trips south to San Diego. 

 Cal. * * * 



I am not now, and never have been in the employ of the present 

 lessees of the seal islands. 



Louis Culler, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 28 years old, 

 and reside at Port Town send, State of Washing- 

 ton. I am by occupation a civil engineer. In 1888 Louis Culler, p. 321. 

 I shipped at Victoria, B. C, as a boat puller on 



the sealing schooner Oscar and Hattie, Gault, master. * * * In 

 1889 I shipped at Victoria as a hunter on the sealing schooner Maggie 

 Mac. * * * In June, 1891, I shipped as a hunter on the sealing 

 schooner Otto, Biley, master. 



Charlie Dahtlin, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born in 

 Shakan and have lived here all my life. Am a 

 Vfry old man. Have been a hunter all my life, Charlie Dahtlin, p. 278. 

 hunting both seal and bear, and all kinds of land 



animals, and have killed a great many of all kinds. Have hunted seal 

 off the west coast of Prince Edward Island for a number of years. 



James Dalgarduo, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a na- 

 tive of Scotland and am 58 years of age; have re- 

 sided in the United States forty-five years, and James Dalgarduo, p. 364. 

 have been a naturalized citizen forty years; I am 



a resident of Port Townsend and have resided in this vicinity for the 

 past forty years, during which period I followed the business of fishing 

 and piloting. I have been in the seal-hunting schooners for a period 

 of eight years, either as master or owner of the schooner, and I hunted 

 in the vicinity of Cape Flattery, say 30 miles off the cape in each direc- 

 tion. 



