THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 67 



Thunk, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am so old that 1 have 

 lost my eyesight. Was born in Yakutat and have 

 lived there all my life. Never killed any fur-seal Thunk, p. 245. 

 in my life. Spent all my life hunting sea-otter. 



Peter Titehenoff, a resident of St. Paul, Kadiak, Alaska, being duly 

 sworn, deposed and said : I am a native of Alaska. 

 Am 57 years old. I am storekeeper for the Alaska p e ter Titchenoff, p. 222. 

 Commercial Company; I am acquainted with the 

 coast from Sitka to Kadiak. 



Charlie Tlaksatan, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 43 

 years old; was born at Sitka, Alaska. Have 

 hunted seal by myself since I was a boy, and 2 $ mrlie Tla1csata »> P- 

 when very small went sealing with my father. 



John C. Tolman, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am United 

 States deputy collector; resided nearly two years 

 at Kadiak in capacity of deputy collector. JohnC. Tolman, p. 222. 



Toodays Charlie, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 30 years 

 old ; I belong to the band of Killisnoo Indians and 



was born at and have lived in Killisnoo all my Toodays Charlie, p. 249. 

 life; am by occupation a herring fisherman; I 



visit all the islands and inlets around Chatham Sound in following my 

 occupation of making oil from the herring which I catch. 



George H. Tread well, being duly sworn, says : I am 55 years of age, 

 a citizen of the United States, and a resident of „ m 



Albany County in the State of New York. I am 523 Ge0, H ' TreadlceU > P- 

 the son of George C. Tread well, of Albany, who, 

 in the year 1832 there started a wholesale fur business of a general 

 character. I became associated with him in it in the year 185S, and 

 upon bis death, in the year 1885, succeeded to the business. It has 

 been carried on under the names of George C. Treadwell & Co. and 

 Treadwell & Co. In the early part of this year it was turned into The 

 George C. Treadwell Company, a corporation formed under the laws of 

 the State of New Jersey, of which corporation I am the president. 



Henry Treadwell, being duly sworn, says that he is a citizen of the 

 United States; is 70 years of age, and resides in 



the city of Brooklyn, in the State of New York; Henry Treadwell, p. 524. 

 that he is a member of the firm of Treadwell and 

 Company, which has been engaged in the business of buying, dress- 

 ing, and dealing in furs since about the year 1832 ; that for the twenty 

 years last past deponent's said firm have bought on their own account, 

 dressed, and dyed annually from 5,000 to 8,000 seal skins. * * * 



I have been in the wholesale fur business for over forty years, and 

 took an active part in it until two years ago, 

 When I retired froni business. Henry Treadwell, p. 529. 



Peter Trearsheit, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 27 years 

 old and reside at Sitka. Am by occupation a sea- 

 man and seal-hunter. Have been engaged in Peter Trearsheit, p. 271. 

 catching seal three seasons. Last season I com- 

 manded the sealing schooner Sitka, of Sitka. 



