THE DEPONENTS AND TH1 IR EXPERIENCE. 53 



John O'Brien, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: 1 am 40 

 years of age; I reside in San Francisco; I am by 

 occupation a longshoreman; I made a sealing John O'Brien,}), no. 

 voyage to the North Pacific and Bering Sea on 



the Alexander, which sailed from Victoria in the latter part of January, 

 1885. I was a boat-puller. 



Nelson T. Oliver, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a native 

 of New Bedford, Mass., and I am 58 years old. I 

 am a resident of Port Townsend, where I have Nelson T. Oliver, p. 372. 

 lived for the past twenty years. I followed sea- 

 faring life from the time I was 15 years old until 1888. I accompanied 

 Capt. Jacobs on board the Mollie Adams, sealing schooner, in February, 

 1888. 



John Olsen, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside in 

 Seattle, Washington. My occupation is ship car- 

 penter. I helped to build the schooner Labrador, John Olsen, p.m. 

 in 1890, at Vancouver, and went sealing in her in 

 1891. Captain Wbiteleigh was commander. 



Peter Olson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at 

 Howkan, and have lived at Kasan since I was a 

 boy. Have been a hunter all my life. Have never p e ter Olson, p. 288. 

 hunted fur-seal; always hunted on tlie land; a 



great many of our people hunt fur-seal along the coast of Prince ol 

 Wales Islands and out in Dixons Entrance. 



Oponyak, being first duly sworn, deposes and 

 says that he is 65 years old. Is a native and resi- Opon yak, p. 308. 

 dent of Aguis. Certifies the evidence given by 

 Dick or Ehenchesut to be true. 



Osly, being duly sworn, deposes and says: lam a native Makak 

 Indian, and reside on the Indian reservation at 

 Neah Bay, in Clallam County, State of Washing- Osly, p. 390. 

 ton, United States of America. I am about 



28 years old, and am a fisherman and hunter by occupation. 

 I have been engaged at seal-hunting along the coast for the 

 last ten years. At first I hunted in large canoes, but soon com- 

 menced to go hunting in schooners. I have sealed all along the coast, 

 from the mouth of the Columbia River to the passes leading into the 

 Bering Sea. * * * About six years ago I went to Bering Sea as ;i 

 hunter on the sealing schooner Favorite. * * * About four years 

 ago I went to Bering Sea as a hunter in the sealing schooner Challen- 

 ger. * * * In 1889 I again went to the sea in the schooner James 

 G. Swan. 



Harrison Gray Otis, being duly sworn, says: I am a resident of this 

 the city of Los Angeles, Cal. ; am president of 

 the Times-Mirror Company, and editor and man- h. g. Otis, p. 85. 

 ager of the Los Angeles Daily Times. I was special 



agent of the Treasury Department, in charge of the fur-seal islands of 

 Alaska during the years 1879, 1880, and 1881, and had three assistant 

 special agents stationed at tbe islands, acting under my directions. 

 During these years I was present at tbe islands throughout each seal- 



