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Olaf Ivvam, being duly sworn, deposes and saith: I reside on Green 

 Island, in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and 

 have lived in the Territory for the last K) years, oiaf Kvam,p. 235. 

 I am a mariner by occupation, but of late years 

 have been engaged in hunting fur-bearing animals. 



George Laclieek, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Am 40 years of 

 age; born at and live in Sitka. Ain by occupa- 

 tion seal-hunter in summer and deer-hunter in George Lacheek, p. 264. 

 winter. Eave bunted seal every season since a 

 small boy. Have always bunted off Sitka Sound. 



James Laflin, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am CO 

 years of age. I have resided in San Francisco 

 the last forty two years. I am by occupation Jame8 La fl m >P- 451 - 

 shipping agenl for the last fifteen years, and tit out all the whaling 

 fleet that leave this port. All the men go through my office. Have 

 fitted out forty-seven whalers this year and have three more in port to 

 be fitted out. I also lit out sealing schooners — about twelve to four- 

 teen each year. I have also owned one third interest as managing 

 owner in two sealing vessels. I handle and pay off over 1,600 seamen 

 each year in the whaling fleet alone. I also handle and ship a great 

 many men on the sealing vessels. I often converse with the masters of 

 the vessels relative to the fur seal. 



Andrew Laing, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 42 years 

 of age: residence, Victoria, British Columbia; 

 occupation, trader. I went out as trader on the Andrew Lamg > *' 334 - 

 W. P. Sayward, of which I was pari owner, in the years of 1882, 1883, 

 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1889, and' L890. In 1888 I went as mate on the 

 Favorite, my boat having been seized the year before by the revenue 

 cutter Bush, but was finally released, so that I went in her again in 

 1889 and 1890. * * * Prior to 1886 I nor my vessel had ever been 

 in the Bering Sea hunting, but had cruised along the coast each year 

 from the Columbia River to Kadiak island, and then returned to Vic- 

 toria and had caughl seals in greater or less numbers each year; but in 

 1886 and each year thereafter, excepting 1891, I have not only sealed 

 on the coast, but have also been in the Bering Sea hunting seals. 



My vessel went to the Bering Sea in 1891, but I did not go with her. 



Sir George Curtis Lampson, baronet, being duly sworn, doth depose 

 and say: (1) That he is 58 years of age and a sub- 

 ject of Her Britannic Majesty. That he is the son sir G. c. Lampson,p.56i. 

 and successor of the late Sir Curtis Lampson, baro- 

 net, who founded the house of C. M. Lampson about the year 1830. That 

 deponent is at the present time the head of the firm of C. M. Lampson 

 & Co., doing business at 64 Queen street, in the city of London. That 

 the business of said firm is that of commission merchants, engaged in 

 selling and in buying on commission fur skins of various kinds. That 

 his said firm now handle and for many years last past have handled a 

 greater number of skins of fur-seals than all the other firms in the 

 world put together, and that he has a general knowledge of the char- 

 acter of the business of buying and selling fur-seal skins. That his 

 partner, Mr. Emil Teichmann, has a more detailed and technical knowl- 

 edge of the business than deponent, and can depose in respect to the 

 technical aspects of the business in more detail and with greater ac- 

 curacy than deponient would wish to do. 



