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(wliicli is published in the British Blue Book, Feeding fcxcm-- 

 1890, C-6131, p. 84), that "anyone who knows' 

 anytliing of seahng is aware that such a charge 

 [catching seals in Alaskan w^aters within three 

 leagues of the shore] is ridiculous, as we never 

 look for seals within twenty miles of shore. They 

 are caught all the way from between twenty and 

 one hundred and fifty miles off the land." Capt. 

 Dyer, of the seized sealing schooner Alfred 

 Adams, confirmed the above statement by say- 

 ing : "We had never taken a seal within sixty 

 miles of Unalaska, nor nearer St. Paul than 

 sixty miles south of it."^ Among the deposi- 

 tions taken before Mr, A. R Milne, collector of 

 customs of the port of Victoria, British Co- 

 lumbia, several of the deponents give testimony 

 as to the usual sealing distance from the Pribilof 

 Islands while in Bering Sea. Capt. William 

 Petit, present master and part owner of the 

 steamer MiscJiief, gives such distance as from 

 sixty to one hundred miles, and states that seals 

 are found all along that distance from land in 

 large numbers.^ Capt. Wentworth Evelyn Baker, 

 master of the Canadian schooner C. H. Tupjper, 

 and formerly master of the schooner Viva, says 

 that the distance from land was from thirty to 



1 British P.lue ]3ook, U. S. No. 2, 1890, C-6131, p. 108. 



2 British Blue Book U. S. No. 3 (1892), C-6635, p. 171. 



