358 TESTIMONY 



Deposition of Charles J. Bchlow, furrier. 



State of California, 



City and county of Sail Francisco, ss: 



Charles J. Behlow, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 



1 reside in San Francisco and am by occupation a fur merchant, and 



have been thus engaged for the last thirty-five years, 



xper handling during this time large quantities of fur-seal 



shins from different localities. On the date hereinafter mentioned I 



examined the following salted fur-seal skins with the following results: 



(1) August 15, 1892, 1,294 skins, ex-American 



iaS n catche8 0D ° f pe " schooner Ivanhoe. 



Eesult: 20G male skins, 109 pup skins (sex doubt- 

 ful), 979 female skins (matured). 



(2) August 11, 1892, 1,603 skins, ex-American schooner Sophie Suth- 

 erland. 



Eesult: One large bull skin, 18 small bull skins, 212 male skins, 139 

 pup skins (sex doubtful), 1,233 female skins (matured). 



(3) August 18, 1892, 1,335 skins, ex- American steam schooner Louis 

 Olsen. 



Eesult: 187 male skins, 1 bull skin, 1 small bull skin, 75 pup skins 

 (sex doubtful), 1,060 female skins (matured). 



(4) August 27, 1892, 2,069 skins, ex- American schooner San Diego. 

 Eesult: 2 large bull skins, 2 small bull skins, 324 male skins, 101 



pup skins (sex doubtful), 1,640 female skins (matured). 



(5) September 28, 1892, 59 skins, ex-schooner Kate and Ann. 

 Eesult: 12 male skins, 2 pup skins (sex doubtful), 45 female skins 



(matured). 



(6) November 7, 1892, 43 skins, ex Mary H. Thomas. 



Eesult: 6 bull skins, 7 male skins, 5 pup skins, 25 female skins 

 (matured). 



I believe that all of the female fur-seal skins above mentioned were 

 taken from cows heavy with pup. All sealskins above mentioned 

 belonged to the Bussian herd of seals which have their rookeries on the 

 Commander Islands, and I am informed that many of them were taken 

 in the waters off the coast of Japan. 



Chs. J. Behlow. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of December, A. D. 

 1892. 



Clement Bennett, 



Notary Fublic. 



Deposition of James B. Brotvn, longshoreman. 



State of California, 



City and county of San Francisco, ss : 

 James B.Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 

 I am a resident of San Francisco, California, and am by occupation 

 a longshoreman. For twenty years I have each year 

 been employed in the unloading of the sealskins re- 

 ceived by the Alaska Commercial Company. Since 1876 I have been 

 foreman of the longshoremen. Up to the time and for a year or so after 

 I became foreman all the sealskins received were put into drays on be- 

 ing unloaded. Since 1879, however, all the sealskins 

 ca^ Ung ° f 8kin8in were packed into casks on the wharf and then put into 

 drays as fast as the casks were headed. The sealskins 



