44 TESTIMONY 



World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, etc. In tlie years 18G8 and 

 1869 I was special United States Treasury agent, assigned to duty in 

 Alaska, and from 1870 to 1889, inclusive, superintendent of the seal 

 fisheries of Alaska for the lessees. 



As superintendent of the seal fisheries I visited the seal islands 

 twice in the summer of 1870, remained constantly thereon from April, 

 1871, until September, 1872, and thereafter went to the islands every 

 summer from 1873 until 1889, inclusive, excepting 1883, 1884, and 1885. 

 I usually remained on the islands about four months, from May until 

 August, in each season, sui)ervising the annual seal catch, examining 

 the conditions of seal life, studying the habits of the seals, and, in 

 brief, doing such work as the interests of the lessees seemed to demand. 



That while located on the Pribilof Islands I was the greater part of 

 that period npon the island of St. Paul; that during the twenty-one 

 years upon the islands I examined at frequent intervals of time the 

 breeding rookeries on said island of St. Paul, and now recollect the 

 condition of said rookeries and the approximate area which each of 

 them covered at different times during my experience on said islands; 

 • V t d b ^^'^^ I have indicated to the best of my recollection the 

 linos on charts *iimits grouuds covcrcd by Said rookcrics in the year 1870 by 

 ofrookeriesiuisTOand ^ ^ed lluc, and the grounds so covered in the year 1882 

 by a blue line, on the exhibits signed by me and marked 

 exhibits A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. That the grounds indicated by said 

 lines are practically correct and represent approximately the areas cov- 

 ered by breeding seals on said rookeries in said years of 1870 and 1882. 



I farther depose and say I have examined the charts of said St. Paul 

 Island, made, as I am informed and believe, by J. 

 h^F^itl^tyBvo^}^. Stanley Brown; that to the best of my knowledge the 

 spaces represented on said charts, as grounds over 

 which the bachelor seals have hauled at various times during my ex- 

 perience, are practically correct. 



H. H. McIntyre. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of March, 1892. 

 [SEAL.] Sevellon A. Brown, 



Notary Public in and for the District of Coluinbia, JJ. S. A. 



Deposition of IT. IT. McIntyre, Treasury agent, and superintendent for the 

 lessees of Pribilof Islands. 



management and pelagic sealing. 



District of Columbia, 



City of Washington, ss : 



H. H. McIntyre, of Eandolph, Orange County, Vt., on being duly 

 sworn, deposes and says, concerning the fur-seals ot 



xpeneiKo. Alaska and matter's relative thereto, as follows: I am 



a native of Vermont, 48 years old, commissioner from Vermont to the 

 World's Cohunbian Exposition of 1893, etc. In the years 1808 and 

 ]S(>9 1 was special United States Treasury agent assigned to duty in 

 Alaska, and from 1870 to 1889, inclusive, superintendent of the seal 

 fisheries of Alaska for the lessees. 



As superintendent of the seal fisheries I visited the seal islands twice 

 in the summer of 1870, remained constantly thereon from April, 1871, 



