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Frederick Skibby, being duly sworn, deposes and saith: I reside at 

 Coal Point, Kachemak Bay, Cooks Inlet, Alaska, 



and have lived in the Territory for the past seven Frederick Skibby, p. 228. 

 months, exclusively at this place. I am a coal- 

 miner by occupation, and have no knowledge of fur-seal life. 



Thomas Skowl, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am chief of 

 the Kas-aan Indians. Was born at Kasaan, and 

 have lived there all my life. Am 48 years old. Thomas Skowl, p. 300. 

 Am a hunter by occupation, and have hunted fur- 

 seal the past fifteen years. Always hunted seal in Dixon s Entrance 

 and off Prince of Wales Island, and hunted them each year from March 

 to June. 



George Skultka, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at 

 Howkau, and have lived there all my life. I am 

 chief of the Hyda Indians; am about 50 years George Skulika, p. 290. 

 old. A.m a hunter by occupation. Have hunted 

 fur-seal since I was about 20 years old. 



Yuan Slanoch, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Am 35 years 

 old; born and have lived in Killisnoo all my life. 

 My business is that of catching herring and mak- Yuan Slanoch, p. 253. 

 ing oil, and chopping wood. I sell the oil to peo- 

 ple of other tribes. When following my occupation I visit all the 

 islands and inlets of Chatham Sound, and have never seen or taken a 

 fur-seal in my life. 



James Sloan, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside 

 in San .Francisco. I am by occupation a seaman. 

 I made three voyages to Bering Sea. My first Jas. Sloan, p.in. 

 voyage was on the Flying Mist, of which Capt. 



Saddler was master; my next was on the Penelope, of which Capt. Lit- 

 tlejohn was master, and my next was in the schooner Arctic, of which 

 Capt. Brassey was master. We sailed from here on the Flying Mist 

 on the 17th day of April, 1871. * * * On my next trip, in 1884, I 

 sailed from Yokohama, Japan, on the Penelope, leaving there about 

 March, * * * going to the Okhotsk Sea, sealing there about a 

 month. * * * My third voyage was in 1889. I sailed from Yoko- 

 hama on the Arctic about the latter part of January. * * * We 

 went to the Okhotsk Sea and sealed there about two months. 



Leon Sloss, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 33 years 

 of age, a native of California, and a resident of 

 San Francisco, Cal. I was for several years a Leon Sloss, p. 90. 

 director of the Alaska Commercial Company, and 



am a member of the partnership of Louis Sloss & Co., and have been 

 engaged for the past fifteen years in dealing in wools, hides, and fur 

 skins, but have now no interest in seals or sealeries. 



I was superintendent pro tempore of the sealeries of Alaska in the 

 interim from 1882 to 1885, inclusive, during the illness of H. H. Mcln- 

 tyre, the regular superintendent, and spent the sealing season of those 

 three years on the Pribilof Islands in the personal management of the 

 business. I am, therefore, by reason of this service and of my active 

 employment at all other times in the office of the Alaska Commercial 

 Company from 1377 to this date, acquainted with every aspect of the 



