342 METHOD. 



Last year he went north in schooner Ariel, and spent one and one- 

 half months in Bering Sea, with a crew of eight 



KicMana, p. 306. white men and sixteen Indians, and spent half of 



April and month of May. He caught 1,080 seal. 



My vessel carried Indian hunters in all her trips previous to this 

 year (1892) and they used canoes and spears in 

 Andrew Laing, p. 334. hunting seals exclusively. The year I was on the 

 Favorite she carried Indian hunters also, who used 

 spears. It is now the practice to hunt along the coast early in the sea- 

 son from the Columbia liiver to the Bering Sea, and enter those waters 

 the fore part of July. * * * 



This year I have changed my crew to white hunters, who use shot- 

 guns and rifles. 



James E. Lennan,p. 369. In the year 1887 [I] was master of a sealing 

 schooner clearing from Victoria. We had eight 

 canoes and sixteen West coast Indian hunters, who use spears and 

 shotguns, the former almost entirely, however. 



The sealing fleet is comprised almost exclusively of small schooners, 

 carrying from tive to thirty men, some of the crew 

 Isaac Liebes, p. 452. being exclusively white men and some of them 

 mixed, white men and Indians. They are fitted 

 with the necessary boats, guns, spears, gaffs, water butts, and other 

 implements required for seal killing and to enable the hunters to re- 

 main away from the vessel in their boats for several consecutive hours. 



I have conversed with the captains of several marauding schooners, 

 and others who were employed in pelagic sealing 



A. P. Loud, p. 39. have imformed me that they usually use rifles in 



shooting seals in the water. Some, however, use 

 shotguns, but to no great extent. 



Thomas Lyons, p. 460. We had six boats, and a hunter, boat-puller, 

 and steerer for each boat, and used shotguns. 



William Molsaae, p. The schooner had four hunting boats, and each 

 l6L boat had a boat-steerer, a puller, and a huuter. 



William McLaughlin, We had six or seven boats on board, three men 

 P' 461 - to a boat, and we used shotguns and rifles. 



I went to the Bering Sea on the Maggie Boss from Victoria, of which 



Captain Olsen was master. I shipped as a boat- 



i; ' 1 ' ( ; ) // '"'" McLaughlin, puller# g he had six boats? three men to a boat? 



and we used Spencer rifles. 

 The hunting outfit of the Otto was rather limited : One seal hunting 

 boat, which I will designate the first boat; one 

 Hooert 11. McManus, p. pleasure boat, heavy and clumsy, the second boat; 

 ■ >-'<t'>. and one Indian hunter and one canoeman in a 



canoe. The first boat was manned by the skip- 

 per as hunter, an acknowledged expert of twelve years' experience, 

 armed with a No. 12 bore double-barreled shotgun by Greener, of Bir- 

 mingham, and one Winchester ideating rifle, and a crew of two white 



