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Metry Monin, Nieoli Noojook, Steplian Toochyk, Alexy Mahagak, 

 Tekan Ivanoff, Alexander Kamlook, Peter Chara- 

 shook, Stephan Apavelook, Alexy Abakee, Sim- Metry Monin etaJ, p. 225. 

 eon Tanapee, Nieoli Kashagak, Tekan Kookew, 



Pavel Abanyngaw, and Peter Abangac, being duly sworn, depose and 

 say: That we are natives of Alaska, and reside at the settlement of 

 Port Alexander, Cook's Inlet, Alaska Territory. We are, by occupa- 

 tion, hunteiv> of fur animals, excepting the fur-seal, and have been en- 

 gaged in this pursuit all our lives, chiefly in this neighborhood. 



Q. What is your name, age, residence, and oc- 

 cupation? — A. My name is Frank Moreau; age, Frank Moreau, p. 467. 

 32; residence, San Francisco; occupation, seal 

 hunter. 



Q. Are you a citizen of the United States'? — A. I am. 



Q. What State are you a resident of? — A. Kentucky; I was born 

 there; I am now residing in the State of California. 



Q. Have you been engaged in catching seals in the Pacific and Ber- 

 ing Sea, and for how long? — A. For five or six years I have been 

 catching seals. 



Eddie Morehead, having been duly sworn, de- Eddie Morehead, p. 4G7. 

 poses and says, I am 21 years of age; I reside in 



San Francisco; my occupation is that of a longshoreman. I have been 

 employed on a sealing vessel as a cabin boy and boat-puller. 1 made 

 one voyage on the VanderMlt in the North Pacific in 1888. 



Thomas F. Morgan, being duly sworn says, [ t. F. Morgan, p. GO. 

 am 44 years of age, and reside in the town of 



Groton, Conn. In 1808 I shipped as second mate of the bark Peru, 

 owned by the firm of Williams & Haven, of the city of New London, 

 Conn., which vessel was commanded by my father, Capt. Ebenezer 

 Morgan, and sailed on that bark from Honolulu about t\xe 27th day of 

 February, 18G8, for the purpose of catching seals on the islands in Per 

 ing Sea, Williams & Haven having for many years been engaged in 

 seal fisheries, and being, so far as I know, the largest firm in the United 

 States engaged in that business. We sailed to the port of Sitka, and 

 there applied to the commander, Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, for permis- 

 sion to land the cargo of the bark on the Pribilof Island and take seals 

 on those islands. At the end of the season I remained on the island of 

 St. Paul, one of the said Pribilof Islands, until August, 1869, as a rep- 

 resentative of Williams & Haven's interests in and about the said 

 island. In the last-mentioned year I returned to this country, and at 

 the request of the Alaska Commercial Company, of which Williams & 

 Haven were stockholders, I was employed in the year 1874 to return to 

 the Pribilof Islands as a representative of the said Alaska Commercial 

 Company. 



In pursuance of such request I returned to the islands as agent of 

 said last-mentioned company in charge of the island of St. George, 

 which with the islands of St. Paul, Otter, and Walrus, constitute the 

 group known as the Pribilof Islands. I arrived at said island some 

 time in May, 1874; took up my residence there and remained in my 

 capacity of agent in and about that island during each sealing season 

 thereafter until the year 1887. At the expiration of the sealing season 

 of 1887, I returned to the United States, and in 1801 was engaged by 

 the Russian Sealskin Company, of St. Petersburg, as chief agent of 

 that conrpany, to proceed to the islands of Komandorski, consisting of 



