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does it end? — A. Sealing commences in the Bering Sea about the 1st 

 of May and ends about the last of September. 



Q. Judging by the direction that seals were traveling in the spring 

 of the year, during your experience, where do you suppose was their 

 destination? — A. The seal islands and the Bering Sea. 



When the seals leave the island they go southward and through the 

 passes of the Aleutian Islands and into the Pa- Jno ^ Fratis „ 108 

 cific Ocean. ' 



Q. When does scaling commence in the Pacific and when does it 

 end? — A. Sealing commences about the 1st of 

 January and ends about the middle of July in ^ ward w - FuncJce >P- 

 the Pacific. 



Q. Judging by the direction that seals were traveling during your 

 experience, where do you suppose was their destination? — A. Well, 

 they were bound toward the Bering Sea, I should judge. 



I have found fur-seals always plentiful in the water, in the spring and 

 early summer, off the Alaskan Peninsula, along 



the fishing banks, from 20 to 30 miles distant from 43 f ram * M ' Ga -f ne 'J> P- 

 land, but have seldom seen them at much greater 

 distance than 30 miles. 



We first find the seal off Cape Flattery in January. I followed the 

 seal up the coast into Bering Sea, where we ar- 

 rived the last of June. Chad Geo, ^ e ' *■ 365 ' 



Have hunted seal between Sitka and Cross sounds. They first ap- 

 pear about middle of this mouth* and disappear 

 about the last of June. James Gondowen,p. 259. 



The seals are found off' the coast of California in Jauuary of each 

 year, and the sealing fleet goes along with them 

 as they proceed northward, nevei losing track of E.M. Greenleaf, p. 324. 

 them and fishing every good day. By the latter 



part of June fleet and seals have arrived in the vicinity of the Aleutian 

 Island grasses. Pregnancy is now far advanced, and young ones taken 

 from their dead mother's womb have lived several days ou the decks of 

 the ships. Those that I caught last year — the pups, I mean — were 

 thrown overboard. 



In the latter part of March a few fur-seal usually first make their ap- 

 pearance in Prince Willliam Sound, and are most 



plentiful in the latter part of April. They are ^coliGregoroffetal.,?. 

 mostly large males, very few females being taken, 

 and those only towards the close of the season, in the latter part of 

 May. 



First seal seen and taken were off Cape Flat- j a s. Griffin, p. 433. 

 tery, about April 15, and followed the seal into 

 Bering Sea, where we arrived about July. 



Fur-seals were first met off Cape Flattery as early as the first part of 

 the month of January, and increased in numbers 

 until the early part of June, diminishing again a. J. Guild, p. 231. 

 towards the latter part of the month. Their mi- 



*April. 



