298 cause. 



of a schooner scon about the island a few days previous landed in the 

 n i. v;]i t, 



October 10, 1884. — Fifteen seal carcasses were found on Zapadnie 

 rookery. A guard was stationed, and the following night the crew of 

 a schooner made an unsuccessful attempt to land. The boats were fired 

 on by the guard and retreated. 



July 20, 1885. — A party landed under the cliffs in a secluded place 

 and killed about five hundred adult female seals and took the skins 

 away with them. They killed about live hundred pups at the same 

 time, leaving them unskinned. 



July 22, 1885. — A party landed at Starrie Arteel rookery and killed 

 and skinned 120 seals, the skins of which they left in their flight, when 

 pursued by the guard. They killed also about 200 pups, which were 

 left unskinned. 



November 17, 1888. — A crew landed and killed some seals at Zapad- 

 nie; how many is not known, but at this season of the year the number 

 must have been small, because the seals have nearly all migrated. 



September 30, 1889. — Eighteen dead seals and four clubs were found 

 on a beach near a rookery. It is not known whether any others were 

 killed. 



An examination of the St. Paul record does not show any destruc- 

 tive raids upon the island. It is a fact, however, that in July, 1875, 

 prior to the beginning of the record, the crew of the schooner San D!<y<> 

 landed on Otter Island, a small islet 6 miles from St. Paul, and killed 

 and skinned 1 ,660 seals. She was captured before leaving the island, 

 and both the skins and vessel were condemned to forfeiture by the 

 United Stales court. 



The reports of the superintendent for the lessees show that it was 

 the custom of the company's agents on the islands to frequently patrol 

 the rookeries whenever the weather was such that a lauding could be 

 effected on them, and to keep watchmen at points distant from the vil- 

 lages, whose special duty it was to report every unusual or suspicious 

 occurrence. For this purpose the northeast point of St. Paul Island 

 was connected with the village by telephone in 1880, a distance of 12 

 miles, and the natives instructed in the use of the instrument. If any 

 raids upon the islands, other than those herein mentioned, had oc- 

 curred, I am sure they would have been detected and reported to this 

 office. No such reports are on hie. 



H. H. Mclntyre, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I was 

 superintendent of the seal fisheries of Alaska 

 H. H. Mclntyre, p. 30. from 1871 to 1880, inclusive. The records above 

 referred to were kept under my direction by my 

 assistants on the respective islands. I was in frequent correspondence 

 with these assistants when not personally present and am sure that 

 anything worthy of notice would have been promptly reported to me. 

 I believe that these records contain a true account of all destructive 

 raids upon the islands. If there had been any others I should have 

 heard of them. Every unusual occurrence at any point about the 

 islands was noted by the keen-eyed natives and at once reported to the 

 company's office, the matter was investigated, and a record of it en- 

 tered in the daily journal. I am confident that the only marauding 

 expedition that ever succeeded in killing more than a few dozen seals 

 each were those of 1875, upon Otter Island, and of 1885 upon St. George 

 Island, the details of which are set forth by Mr. Heilbronner in the 

 foregoing affidavit. If there were others of which no record appears, 



