RELATING TO PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 59 



The sex of the yearhugs is not easily determined unless the animal 

 is caught and examined. The shape, size, and color Distinguishing tLe 

 of the two sexes are very closely alike at this age. «'^^- 

 At 2 years old it is less difficult, and there is very little risk in 

 assuming that all those found at this age with the uonbreeders are 

 males, because all, or nearly all, the females at 2 years old consort 

 with the breeding seals upon the rookeries. In the last two years of 

 the Alaska Commercial Company's lease of the sealeries large numbers 

 of 2-year old seals were killed under my direction, but never, to my 

 knowledge, any females of this age. 



H. H. McIntybe. 



Sworn to and subscribed at Randolph, Vt., this 28th day of July, 

 A. D. 1892, before me. 

 [seal] J. B. Eldredge, 



Notary Fuhlic. 



Deposition of Thomas F. Morgan^ sealer on Prihilof Islands in 1808 and 

 1869, and agent of lessees from 1874 to 1887. 



pribilof island rookeries. 



District oe Columbia, 



City of Washington, ss : 



Thomas F. Morgan, beiiig duly sworn, says : I am 44 years of age, and 

 reside in the town of Clroton, Conn. In 1886 1 shipped as second 

 nuite of the bark Peru, owned by the firm of Wil- 

 liams & Haven, of the city of jSTew London, Conn., xpenence. 

 which vessel was commanded by my father,Capt. Ebenezer Moigan, and 

 sailed on that bark from Honolulu about the 27th day of February, 

 1868, for the purj^ose of catching seals on the islands in Uering Sea, 

 Williams & Haven having for many years been engaged in seal fisheries, 

 and being, so far as I know, the largest firm in the United States en- 

 gaged in that business. We sailed to the port of Sitka and there ap- 

 plied to the commander. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, for permission to land 

 the cargo of the bark on the Pribilof Islands and take seals on those 

 islands. At the end of the season I remained ou the island of St. Paul, 

 one of the said Pribilof Islands, until August, 1869, as a representative 

 of Williams & Haven's interest in and about said island. In the last- 

 mentioned year I returned to this country, and, at the request of the 

 Alaska Commercial Company, of which Williams & Haven were stock- 

 holders, I was employed in the yciir 1874 to return to the Piibilof Is- 

 lands as a re]nesentative of said Alaska Commercial Company. 



In pursuautM3 of such request I returned to the island as agent of 

 said hist-uieutioned company in charge of the island of St. George, 

 which with the islands of St. Paul, Otter, and Walrus, constitute the 

 group known as t*he Pribilof Islands. I arrived at said island some- 

 time in May, 1874; took u]) my residence there, and remained in my 

 capacity of agent in and about that island during each vsealing seasou 

 thereafter until the year 1887. That during the years 1868 and 1869, 

 and from May to July, 1874, I was located on St. Paul Island, and also 

 from July, 1882, to May, 1883; that during the remainder of the time I 

 was upon said islands I was resident on St. George Island; that during 

 iny residence on said islands I examined frequently the breeding rook- 



