44 THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 



Q. State your age and place of residence. — A. I am 34 years of age 

 and am a native and resident of St. Paul Islaud, 

 Noen Mandregin,p. 139. * loota 



Q. What is your occupation'? — A. I am a sealer, formerly in the em- 

 ploy of the Alaska Commercial Company, and now in the employ of the 

 North American Commercial Company. 



John Margathe, being duly sworn, deposes and says that for 23 years 



he has resided on the west coast of Vancouver Is- 



JoM Margathe, p. 308. i aiK i, Victoria, Barclay Sound, etc., and that at 



present he owns a store inUchulet, Barclay Sound, 



audis the only white man residing in same. 



Patrick Maroney, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside 



in San Francisco. My occupation is that of a 



Patrick Maroney, p. 464. seaman ; I made two voyages to the North Pacific 



and Bering Sea. In 1889 I went out in the May 



Ellen, of which Capt. Alex. McLean was master, and in 1890 I went 



out in the Lizzie Ellen. I was a boat puller on both voyages. 



Charles Martin, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at 



Klinquan and reside there; am 30 years old, and 



Chas. Martin, p. 297. my occupation is that of a hunter. Have hunted 



fur-seal ever since I was a boy; always hunt in 



Dixons Entrance and around Prince of Wales and Queen Charlottes 



islands. 



Walter Edward Martin, being duly sworn, doth depose as follows: 



First. That he is 40 years of age, a subject of Her Britannic Majesty, 

 and lives in the city of St. Albans, and carries 



Walter E. Martin,p. 567. on business at 4 Lambeth Hill, in the city of Lon- 

 don; that he is the head of the firm of C. W. Mar- 

 tin & Sons, who are the successors of the firm of Martin & Teichmann, 

 which firm was composed of deponent's father, C. W. Martin, and Emil 

 Teichmann, who is now r a member of the firm of C. M. Lampson & Co., 

 of the city of London; that the said firm of C. W. Martin & Sons is 

 engaged in the business of dressing and dyeing furs of all kinds; that 

 they have until the last year and have for many years last past dressed 

 and dyed a larger number of skins of the fur-seal than all the other 

 firms in the world together; that deponent has made no examination 

 of the books of his firm for the purpose of seeing precisely the number 

 of skins annually dressed and dyed by his said firm and its predecessor, 

 but it is the fact that his said firm in one year dressed 150,000 fur seal 

 skins, and of that number dyed 130,000, and it is also the fact that 

 until within the last two years his firm dressed upwards of 110,000 or 

 lL'0,000 skins in each year, and dyed upwards of 100,000 skins so 

 dressed. 



That deponent has been in the business of dressing and dyeing fur- 

 seal skins about twenty-two years; that he has personally handled 

 many hundreds of thousands of such skins, and that he has a detailed 

 and specific knowledge of the character of the various sorts of seal- 

 skins and of the markets therefor, and that he has also a general 

 knowledge of the history of the seal-skin business during the whole of 

 that period. 



