20 THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 



Herbert V. Fletcher, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I run a 

 citizen of Randolph, Vt., where I have had my 



H. V. Fletcher, p. 105. home nearly all my life. 1 am by trade a machin- 

 ist and blacksmith, and by occupation a farmer. 



In 1882 I went to St. Paul Island in the service of the Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company as their chief mechanic, and remained there two 

 years and four months, including the sealing seasons of 1882, 1883, and 

 1884. During such season of each of these years I was employed a 

 considerable portion of the time in the annual seal-killing, and at other 

 times my work took me frequently to the various parts of the island, 

 so that in the coarse of my stay there I became, as all do who live 

 there a year or more, very familiar with everything pertaining to the 

 seals. 



George Fogel, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 52 

 years of age. I reside in San Francisco. My oc- 

 Geo. Fogel, jj. 424. cupation is that of a .merchant. I have been in- 



terested in sealing schooners for four years prior 

 to 1892. I sent out the G. II. White and Kate Manning to the Bering 

 Sea and North Pacific. * * * I fitted out the schooner Cygnet in 

 1874, which was one of the first sealers to go to the Bering Sea. * # 

 * In 1870 I sent a vessel to Chilaway, off the coast of Chile. 



William Foster, a resident of St. Paul, Kadiak, Alaska, being duly 



sworn, deposed and said : I am a hunter. Have 



Wm. Foster, p. 220. been in Alaska eighteen years. Have been from 



Icy Bay to Unalaska. I have never hunted fur 



seal until last year. 



C. L. Fowler, being duly sworn, deposes and says : I am 46 years of age 

 and was bom at Stoneham, Mass. I have been a 

 C. L. Fowler. p. 25. resident of the Pribilof Islands most of the time 



since 1879. My occupation is that of assistant 

 agent of the lessees of the islands. I have had eight years' experience 

 on the sealing fields of St. Paul and St. George islands, and I have a 

 practical knowledge of the habits of the fur seal while on the islands, 

 and of the methods used in taking and preparing the skins for ship- 

 ment. 



Frank, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born on Queen 

 Charlottes Island, and am now a very old man. 

 Frank, p. 293. Don't know my age. I have hunted fur seals. 



* * * I always hunted seals in Dixons En- 

 trance and off Prince of Wales and Queen Charlotte islands in March 

 and June. 



Chief Frank, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am the second 

 "chief of the Kaskan Indians. Was born at and 

 Chief Frank, p. 280. have lived in Kaskan all my life, and am now 

 a very old man. My father lived here before me. 

 My occupation has always been that of a hunter. Have hunted fur- 

 seal in canoes. Have always used the shot-gun for killing seal. 



Luke Frank, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born in 

 Howkan, and have lived there all my life; am by 



Luke Frank, p. 294. occupation a hunter, and have hunted fur-seal 

 six years of my life; have always hunted in Dix 



