172 MIGRATION OF THE HERD. 



oratory Movement is from the southward to the northward, following 

 the general trend of the coast line. They first approach the coast en. 

 masse about ('ape Flattery, but I have known of stragglers being seen 

 as far south as Coos Bay. The vessels in which I sailed followed the 

 seals up the eoasi of Vancouver Island as far north as Clayoquot 

 Sound, ;ii which point we left them in the latter part of July, owing to 

 their scarcity. Other and larger vessels followed them to a greater 

 distance, generally going up into Bering Sea. and keeping along with 

 the main herds. 



Q. Save you any experience as to the habits of the fur-seals? — A. 

 Not any more than they seemed to emigrate in 



Chas.G.Hagman,p. 435. the winter and go north in the summer. That 

 is all 1 know of their habits. I have never seen 

 them out of the water. 



Q. What time of the year do you generally start out sealing in the 

 Pacific and up to what time do yon continue.' — A. From the 1st of 

 February, as a general thing, until about dune, on the coast. Then we 

 used to go in the Bering Sea. 1 have not been there for four or five 

 years. 



C>. What time of the year arc the seals all out of the Pacific, having 

 gone to the Bering Sea.' — A. They generally leave in June. You don't 

 see but very few after June. 



I do not remember ever having seen a fur-seal in the water between 



the Four Mountain Islands and Attn Island. The 



Chas. J. Wagae, p.207. main body oi' the fur-seal herd bound to and from 



the Pribilof Islands move through the passes of 



the Fox Islands, TJnimak on the east and the West Pass of Uninak on 



the west being the limits between which they enter Bering Sea in any 



number. 1 do not know through what passes the different categories 



move or the times of their movements. Rarely see fur-seals in the 



Pacific between San Francisco and the immediate vicinity of the passes. 



Have hunted fur-seal in a canoe. Have had my hunting lodge on 



Dundas Island and Nicholas Bay, and hunt seal 



Henry Halftone, p. 281. from the last of March to the first of Jane off 



Prince of Wales Island, in Dixons Entrance, and 



Queen Charlotte Sound. They all disappear about June 1 ou their way 



north. 



First find and take seal in January off Columbia Eiver. They are 

 then advancing up the coast. We follow them 

 Martin Hannon,p.U5. uutjl tlR . y enter Bering Sea about July 1st. 



Q. Have you any experience as to the habits of the fur-seal? — A. I 

 have been catching a good many of them. I don't 



li. Harmsen, p. 442. know much about their habits. You mean on the 

 coast .' 



Q. Yes; their general habits of going and coming? — A. Yes. they 

 generally come round on the coast about a week before Christinas and 

 up until about the middle of June, when they leave the coastand go 

 north. 



C>. What time of the year do you generally start out sealing in the 

 Pacific, and up to what time do you continue.' — A. We start out about 

 Xew Year's. 



Q, What time do you come in again ? — A. About the middle of Sep- 

 tember or October. 



