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eries on the island wlieie I tlien was located, and now recollect the 

 condition of said rookeries, and the approximate area which each of 

 them covered at different times dnring- my experience on said islands; 

 that I haA'-e carefully examined the lines draAvn by H. H. Mclntyre on 



exhibits sioned by him and marked Exhibits A, B, C, 

 th^'S'coTerfcdby D, E, F, and G, indicating the grounds covered by said 

 tiie rookeries. rookerics ou St. Paul Island in the year 1870, and the 



year 1882, and that the red line shows the approximate area so covered 

 in 18(30, and the blue line the approximate area so covered in 1882; 

 that I have indicated to the best of my recollection the grounds covered 

 by breeding rookeries on St. George Island in the year 1874, by a red 

 line, and the gronnds so covered in the year 1884 hy a blue line, on the 

 exhibits signed by me and marked Exhibits H, I, J, and K; that the 

 grounds so indicated are practically correct and represent ajiproximately 

 the area covered by breeding seals on said St. George Island in said 

 years of 1874 and 1884. 



I further depose and say I hare examined the charts of said St. Paul 



and St. George Islands, made as I am informed and 

 Verifies charts bclicvc bv J. Stanlev Browu ; that to the best of my 



drawn by J. Stanley . ■, -, "^ .^ ' ',i -ii. 



Brown showing haul- kuowlcdge the spaccs represented on said charts as 

 inlsf™""*^* "" '^' grounds over which the bachelor seals have hauled at 

 various times during my experience are ijractically 

 correct. 



Thomas F. Morgan. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of April, 1892. 

 [SEAL.] Sevellon A. Brown, 



Notary Public in and for the District of Columhia, U. S. A. 



Dcpos it ion of Tli o mas F. Morga n, a gen t of th e lessees on fh e PribilofZsla n ds 

 and of the lessees on the Commander Islands. 



habits, management, and pelagic sealing. 



District of Colijimbia, 



City of Washington, ss: 



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



and reside in the town of Groton, Conn. In 1808 I shipped as second 



mate of the bark Peru, owned by the firm of Williams & Haven, 



. ^ of the city of Kew London, Conn., which vessel was 



xpoiience. commanded by my father, Capt. Ebenezer Morgan, 



and sailed on that bark from Honolulu about the 27th day of Feb- 

 ruary, 18(j8, for the purpose of catching seals on the islands in 

 Bering Sea, Williams & Haven having for many years been engaged 

 ill seal fisheries, and being, so far as I know, the largest firm in the 

 United States engaged in that business. W^e sailed" to the port of 

 Sitka, and there apphed to the commander, Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, 

 for permission to land the cargo of the bark on the Pribilof Islands 

 aijd take seals on those islands. At the end of the season I remained 

 on the island of St. Paul, one of the said Pribilof Islands, until August, 

 18G9, as a representative of Williams & Haven's interests in and about 

 the said island. In the last mentioned year I returned to this country, 

 and at the request of the Alaska Commercial Company, of which Wil- 

 liams & Haven were stockholders, I was employed in the year 1874 to 



