16 THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 



William Healy Dall, of Washington, aforesaid, being- duly sworn, 

 deposes and says: That in connection with my 



W. II. Dall, p. 22. scientific studies at Cambridge, Mass., I devoted 



nearly three years to the study of biology, anat- 

 omy, and medicine; that since completing my studies with Prof. Louis 

 Agassiz at Cambridge, in the year 1863, I have been engaged in scien- 

 tific work, and am now a paleontologist in the U. S. Geological Survey. 

 I first visited Bering Sea in the summer of 1865 as a member of the 

 scientific corps of the Western Union Telegraph expedition. Visited 

 the Aleutian Islands and went to St. Michael, passing near the Pribilof 

 group. In the spring of I860 again went to northern Alaska, in the 

 same capacity, and remained there until the fall of 1868. In 1867 the 

 aforesaid expedition was abandoned, but I remained in the country in 

 order to continue my scientific investigations, wintering on the main- 

 land. In the fall of 1868 I made my way back to San Francisco on the 

 schooner Francis Steele, owned by the Pioneer American Pur Company, 

 which had a station at St. George Island, where we stopped on our way 

 south, and thus gave me a chance to observe seal lite for several weeks. 

 In 1871 I joined the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for the purpose 

 of carrying out a proposed survey of the Aleutian chain of islands. I 

 was thus engaged from the summer of 1871 to the end of the season of 

 1874, and during the winter of 1871-'72 wintered at Unalaska. During 

 this period had opportunity to familiarize myself with aquatic seal life, 

 and in 1874 made a reconnoissance survey of the Pribilof Islands, 

 which afforded me an additional opportunity to observe seal life on the 

 rookeries. 



In 1880 I again visited all my former stations about and in Bering- 

 Sea for the purpose of obtaining magnetic observations. This was my 

 last opportunity to examine the rookeries. 



John Daltou, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 32 



years of age. I reside in San Francisco. My 



John Dalton,p. 417. occupation is that of a sailor. I made a sealing 



voyage to the North Pacific and Bering Sea in 



1885 on the Schooner Alexander, of which Capt. J. F. McLean was 



master. 1 was a boat-puller. 



Alfred Dardean, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 

 Victoria, British Columbia. My occupation for 

 Alfred Dardean, p. 322. the last two years has been that of a seaman. 1 

 went sealing in the schooner Mollie Adams (after- 

 wards changed to E. B. Marvin) as boat puller. 



Frank Davis, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am about 66 

 years old, a native Indian of the Makah tribe, re- 

 Franic Davis, p. 383. side on the Neah Bay Eeservation, in the county 

 Clallam, State of Washington, and my occupation 

 is that of a hunter and fisherman. I have been engaged in seal hunt- 

 ing for about seventeen years. I have always hunted in canoes and 

 with spears, and years ago would kill a great many seals. I was up 

 in the Bering Sea' sealing in 1889, and have not been there since. All 

 the other years I have been seal hunting along the coast between 

 Grays H&rbor and Barclay Sound. 



