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Lenibkey says the holluschickie 

 are never driven from shelter on 

 the breeding rookeries. 



Chief Special Agent Lembkey: Further- 

 more, the 3-year-okl8, having i)assed the 

 age of puberty, are not found on the 

 hauling grounds (hning the fall, but are 

 hauled among the rows on the rookeries 

 when they can not b? driven. This is an 

 additional safeguard against their killing, 

 and of itself would disprove any allegation 

 that these marked seals are subsequently 

 killed. (Report, Dec. 34, 1906, p. 13; 

 Sen. Doc. 37(). (iOth Cong.. 1st sess. ) 



Lembkey swears that the offi- 

 eial pubhc'ation of ElUott's 1874 

 report never reached the files of 

 his office on the seal islands. 



San Francisco, November 15, 1911. 

 Mr. W. I. Lembkey. 



Dear Sir: In compliance with your 

 request, I have looked over the published 

 account of the fur-seal investigation, and 

 I can truthfully state that I consider the 

 testimony of 11. W. Elliott to be design- 

 edly false and misleading, especially that 

 part referring to the season of 1890. 



Referring to the scale of weights and 

 measurements of sealskins, which he 

 claims was introduced by himself and the 

 late Dr. Mclntyre, I have never heard of 



But his assistant says they are 

 so driven — are "pulled out from 

 among the cows." The St. Paul 

 native sealers confirm Judge in a 

 signed statement, Jul}^ 23, 1913: 



Assistant Agent James Judge. Seals. — 

 Four hundred and fifty-eight seals of the 

 quota of 500 allowed the natives of this 

 island for food were obtained. The first 

 drive was made on October 19, from 

 Staraya Artel, and 220 seals were killed; 

 209 small, sixty-five 3-year-olds, five 

 4-year-olds, six S-year-olds, two 6-year- 

 olds, and 4 branded M^ere turned away. 

 Three other drives were made as follows: 

 October 31, Staraya Artel rookery, 148 

 seals were killed, twelve S-year-olds re- 

 leased; November 9, Staraya Artel and 

 north, 44 seals killed; November 16, 

 North lookery, 25 seals killed; October 20 

 to November 10, Zapadni Guard?, 21 

 seals killed. 



The last three drives were made up 

 entirely of seals pulled out from among th? 

 cows by the natives, and as very careful 

 selection had taken place on the rookery 

 very few were turned away from the 

 killing field. (Report, June 3, 1907, 

 Sen. Doc. 376, ]>. 105, 60th Cong., Ist 

 sess.) 



Question. Did you ever use whistles 

 when you drove those young seals out 

 from the .shelter of the rookeries? 



Ansicer. No. They used to use them, 

 but do not use them now. They just run 

 in and yell and clap Iheir hands. 



Question. Did you ever report that 

 work to the tiovcrnment agents? 



Ansirer. Yes; it was always? reported to 

 the Government iigents. (Statements of 

 the native sealers, St. Paul's Island, 

 July 23, 1913; made to agents, H. Com. 

 Exp., Dept. Commerce, p. 98, rept. Aug. 

 31, 1913.) 



But it was on the official files, 

 for in 1886 the chief special 

 agent so reports to the Secre- 

 tary of the ITnited States Treas- 

 m-y. 



Office of Special Agent 

 Treasury Department, 

 St. Paul Island, Alaska, 



July 31, 1886. 

 Sir: I herewith transmit my report of 

 the operations of the seal islands for the 

 past year, and up to the close of this seal- 

 ing season . 



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Mr. Elliott embraced in his report of 

 1874 a measurement by him of the breed- 

 ing rookeries on this island, made July 

 10-18, 1872, since which time no measure- 



