100 MIGRATION OF THE HERD. 



I have never known of a pup being born or of hauling grounds ex- 

 isting anywhere along the Alaskan coastor in the 

 W. H. Ball, p. 23. islands adjacent thereto, except the Pribilof Is- 



lands. I have heard stories and traditions to 

 that effect, but I have never known of their being substantiated. 



I have cruised up and down the coast of Vancouver Island, but 

 never found a place where fur-seals hauled out 



James Dahjarduo,p.36l. upon shore, nor have I ever heard of any fur-seal 

 rookeries in the Northern Hemisphere, except 

 those in Bering Sea. 



Hooniah Diclc, p. 258. Never have heard of any fur seal being hauled 

 up on the coast or rocks of Alaska other than ou 

 the Pribilof Islands. 



George Diskow, p. 323. Have never known fur-seal to haul up on the 

 land anywhere on the coast except on the Pribilof 

 Islands. 

 I have never known or heard of any fur-seal hauling up on the land 

 in British Columbia or Alaska outside of the 

 Wm. Duncan, p. 279. Pribilof Islands. My connections with the In- 

 dians have been such that had there been a fur- 

 seal rookery in British Columbia or Alaska I certainly should have 

 known it. 



I have never seen fur-seals in the waters of Anchor Point, and am 

 positive that, no fur seal rookery exists in the 



Ellas Esaiasscn, _p. 230. region, nor have I ever heard of any other rook- 

 eries than those on the seal islands of Bering Sea. 



The fur-seal only lands upon the Pribilof Group of islands. Of this 



tact I am thoroughly convinced from carefully 



Saml. Falconer, p. 164. questioning natives of Alaska and the Aleutian 



Islands, and also from my coasting experience as 



purser on board the Gonstantine. In all the years 1 passed in these 



localities I never heard of a seal landing anywhere except on the Pribilof 



Islands. 



Lit I tier T. Franklin, 

 425. 



P- Q. Do you know of any place where seals land, 

 outside of the seal islands? — A. I do not; except 

 in the fall, they land on the Aleutian Islands. 



From 1859 to 18G9 I was employed on whaling vessels working in 

 Bering and Okhotsk seas and the Arctic Ocean 

 John Fratis, p. 107. I have been along the coast of Bering and Okhotsk, 

 seas and along the coast of Alaska in the North 

 Pacific Ocean from Sitka to Unalaska, and I never saw or heard tell of 

 any in American waters in that whole region, where the Alaskan fur- 

 seals haul out on land or breed, excepting on the seal islands of Bering- 

 Sea know as the Pribilof Islands. 



Edward W. Fancke, p. Q. Do you know of any place where seals land 

 428. outside of the seal islands ? — A. No, sir j I do not. 



