260 PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION. 



Courses of seal- District, Vancouver Island, one of the hunters 



ing vessels. 



on board the British schooner Carolina^ seized by 

 Captain Abbey, United States Revenue Marine, 

 in 1886, says: "During tlie time while we were 

 cruising about we were in the open sea oat of 

 sight of land."^ Much other testimony of tiie 

 same nature might be advanced, but it will le 

 sufficient to mention only the declarations of 

 James Douglas Warren as to the places of 

 seizure in the cases of the W. P. Sayivard, Grace, 

 Anna Beck, JDol/pliin, Alfred Adams, and Ada, 

 vessels seized by the United States Government 

 in 1887, the distance given shows how the seals 

 wander many miles from land, for in all cases 

 Mr. Warren states the vessel was engaged in 

 sealing at the distances given : the W. P. Say ward 

 about fifty-eiglit miles from Unalaska, the 

 nearest land ;^ the G^race about ninety-two miles 

 from Unalaska, th enearest land;^ the Anna Bech 

 about sixty-six miles from the nearest land ; * the 

 Boljiliin about forty-two , miles from Unalaska 

 Island, the nearest land; ^ the Alfred Adams 

 about sixty-two miles from Unalaska Island, the 

 nearest land," and the Ada about fifteen iniles 



1 Brit.isli Blue Book, U. S. No. 2 (1890), C-6131,p.8- 

 2/6ifi.,p. 14.5. 



* Ibid., p. 1.52. 

 6 iWf/., p. 156. 

 a Jhid, p. ICO, 



