RELATING TO PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 29 



I have made diligent inquiry into the habits of the seals and have 

 yet to learn that they haul up on land on the American 

 coast or islands excei)t the Pribilof Islands, at which „^''wtP, "'J'^' °° 



,, , '^^1 . 1X1 Pnbilof Islands. 



place alone they bear their young-, and I have no rea- 

 son to believe that the i^ups are born in the water or peias^ic birth im 

 that they can be saved in the waterif accidentally born possibFe. 

 there. 



M. A. Healy. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of April, A. D. 1892. 

 [SEAL.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



JJeposition of Max Heilbromier, Secretary of the AlasJca Commercial Com- 



j)any. 



State of California, 



City and County of /San Francisco, ss: 



Max Heilbronner having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 

 secretary of the Alaska Commercial Company, and as such have in my 

 custody all record books of the Company; and among them the daily 

 records or " log book " kept by the agents of the Com- 

 pany on St. George Island from 1873 to 1889, Inclusive, m^^'^s*^™^"^. 

 and on St. Paul Island from 1870 to 1889, inclusive. In these books 

 every occurrence was carefully noted from day to day by the agent in 

 charge at the time. They have been examined under my supervision 

 and show only the following raids on St. George Island during the 

 time covered by them, to wit: 



October 23, 1891 [1881]. — The carcasses of fifteen dead pup seals 

 and a cargo hook were found on a rookery. It was 

 supposed that the crew of a schooner seen about the 

 island a fcAv days previous landed in the night. 



October 10, 1884. — Fifteen seal carcasses were found on Zapadnie 

 rookery. A guard was stationed, and the following night the crew of 

 a schooner made an unsuccessful attempt to land. The boats were 

 fired on by the guard and retreated. 



July 20, 1885. — A party landed under i\\Q cliffs in a secluded place 

 and killed about five hundred adult female seals and took the skins 

 away with them. They killed about five hundred pups at the same 

 time, leaving them unskinned. 



July 22, 1885. — A party landed at Starrie Arteel rookery and killed 

 and skinned one hundred and twenty seals, the skins of which they left 

 in their flight, when j)ursued by the guard. They killed also about two 

 hundred puj)s, which were left unskinned. 



November 17, 1888. — A crew lauded and killed some seals at Zapad- 

 nie; how many is not known, but at this season of the year the number 

 must have been small, because the seals have nearly all migrated. 



September 30, 1889. — Eighteen dead seals and four clubs were found 

 on a beach near a rookery. It is not known whether any others were 

 killed. 



