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In the winter time some young seal frequent P. Eashevaroff,p. 262. 

 the inside passage. 



Have always hunted them in Dixons Entrance and off Prince of 

 Wales Island between March and June. Hunt 

 them until the last of May, when the seal dis- King Easlcwa, p. 295. 

 appear, going north. 



Always hunted in Dixons Entrance and off Prince of Wales Islands 

 in May and June. In June the seal all go up 

 north. They come in March, but it is too stormy j% m Kasooh, p. 296. 

 to hunt them. 



Have first seen seal off Sitka Sound about Mike Eethusduck, p. 262. 

 April 15. They all disappear by the last of June. 



I usually commence the voyage near the coast of California in the 

 early part of January and continue along up the 

 coast, following the herd on its way to its breed- Jas. Kiernan, p. 450. 

 ing grounds until the latter part of June, hunt- 

 ing all the way and entering Bering Sea about the 1st of July, and 

 remaining in those waters until about the 10th or loth of September. 



Have hunted fur-seal for twelve seasons off Prince of Wales Island. 

 Have always hunted seal a month and a half 

 before the small birds hatch, and they hatch about Jas. Klonacket, p. 283. 

 June 1. The seal all go north about this time. 



Have hunted fur-seal for three years in Dixons Entrance and off 

 Prince of Wales Island in the month of May. 

 The seal all leave there by the first of June; Robert Kooko, p. 296. 

 think they go north. 



Fur-seals usually first appear in Prince William Frank Korthp. 235. 

 Sound in large schools, early in the month of April. 



The most of the bulls leave the island in September, and the cows in 

 the last of October and early in November, and the pups leave in No- 

 vember; sometimes when the weather is warm a few seals remain until 

 January at Northeast Point and on " Sea Lion Rock." 



In 1890 we killed seals at both places late in January, and we seen 

 seals on Sea Lion Rock in January, 1892. I have 



noticed that the seals go off south as soon as the Jamb Eotchooten, p. 131. 

 beach becomes icy, and when the land is sur- 

 rounded by drift ice the seals disappear entirely. I do not know where 

 the seals go to wheu they leave the island, but I do think they come 

 back to the same rookery every year. 



First seen and taken seal off Sitka Sound; about the middle of April 

 each year they make their appearance. They are 

 then working northward and westward. ° no - Komneet > P- 264 - 



At this village we see no seals in the spring, but late in the fall, in 

 late October, we go out in our bidarkas and catch 

 with spears and sometimes guns the young pups Ivan Erukoff, p. 205. 

 which were born on the seal islands in the sum- 



