184 MIGRATION OF THE HERD. 



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



experience, where do you suppose was their desti- 



GustaveS)indvall,pA81. nation"? — A. I can not tell their destination, but I 



should judge they went south in the fall from 15 



to 5()() miles offshore, and in the spring they travel to the northward 



from 5 to 100 miles offshore. 



Have first seen and killed seal off Sitka Sound 

 M Thlkahdaynahkee, i>. a bout April 15, and disappear entirely about 

 - bJ - July 1. 



Theliunters follow the seal from south of San Francisco, where they 

 begin to take them in February until they enter 



W. Thomas, p. 485. Bering Sea. The seal are constantly on the ad- 



vance up the eoast from the time they first appear. 



Seal have been seen and taken on the coast by me from the 10th of 



April till the 4th of July. At the beginning of 



Charlie Tlalcsatan,p.270. the season they are plentiful, but scarce at the 



close of the season. They are constantly going 



north along the coast. 



Jno. c. Tohnan, p. 222. The seal are taken off Kadiak Island about the 

 1st of June. 



Took seal along the eoast as far as Yakutat. First seal were seen 

 and caught hist year off Sitka Sound and last year 



Peter Trearsheit, p. 271. off Salisbury Sound in April and May. The seal 

 are working to westward all the time. 



John Tijsum, p. 391. Seals appear on the coast about the last of De- 



cember, and they are nearly all gone up north by 

 the middle of July. * * * 



The cow seals leave the vicinity of Cape Flattery sooner than the 

 young seals do, and are almost all gone in June; but I have killed 

 young ones as late as July. 



James Unatajim, p. 271. The first seal make their appearance on this 

 coast off Sitka Sound. They are then advancing 

 up the coast. 



George Usher, p. 291. The seals at this time [May 10th] of year are 

 always going north. 



Rudolph Walton, p. 272. Have seen and taken seal from the middle of 

 April to the middle of May. They are on their 

 way north at that time. 



First seal are seen and taken by me off Sitka Sound. When I was 

 a boy seal came into the sound very close, but 



Charlie Wank, p. 273. uow I have to go a long ways to get them. Seal do 

 not stop off the sound long, but are constantly on 

 the move north and west. 



