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these drives on Copper Island are exceedingly hard and roui>li; I know 

 of none on the Pribilof Islands to coniijare with them. The seals of 

 the Commander Islands appeared to me slightly differ- commander isimd 

 ent from the Pribilof fur-seals. They are grayer in seaiHi^e" phvsfcaiiv 

 color, and of a slighter build throughout the body, flof isirnds"^*" ^'"''' 

 The bulls have not such heavy manes, or fur capes, the 

 hair on the shoulders being much shorter, and not nearly so thick. 

 The younger seals have longer and more slender necks apparently. I 

 noticed this difference between the seals at once. 



]Sr. B. Miller. 



Subscribed and sw^orn to before me this 23d day of June, 1892. 



Z. L. Tanner, 

 Lieutenant- Commander, JJ. IS. Navy. 



Deposition of Thomas F. Morgan, agent of lessees of Commander Islands. 



HABITS. 



District of Columbia, 



City of Washington, ss: 

 Thomas F. Morgan, of Groton, Conn., being duly sworn, deposes and 

 says: During the season of 1891 I was the agent of 

 the Kussia.n Sealskin Company, of St. Petersburg; Experience. 

 that I was on Bering Island at the time that Sir George Baden- 

 PoAvell and Dr. George M. Dawson, the British representatives 

 of the Bering Sea Joint Commission, were upon said island investigat- 

 ing the Eussian sealeries upon the Komandorski Islands; that I was 

 present at an examination, which said Commissioners held, of Sniegerofif, 

 the Chief of the natives on Bering Island, who, prior to the cession of 

 the Pribilof Islands by Eussia to the United States, had resided on 

 St. Paul, one of said Pribilof Islands, and that since that time had 

 been a resident on said Bering Island, and during the latter part of 

 said residence had occupied the position of native chief and as such 

 superintended the taking and killing of fur-seals on said Bering Island; 

 that during said examination the Commissioners, through an interpreter, 

 asked said Sniegeroff if there was any difterence between the seals 

 found on the Pribilof Islands and the seals found on the Koman- 

 dorski Islands; that said Sniegeroff at once replied that there was 

 difference and on further questioning stated that such 

 difference consisted in the fact that the Koma- Testifies as to state- 



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dorski Island seals were a slnnmer animal m the neck Oommissioners by 

 and flank than the Pribilof Island seals, and further S"™^- '^'^"^^ 

 that both the hair and fur of the Komandorski Island 

 seal were longer than the Pribil of Island seal; said Commissioners 

 asked said Sniegeroff the further question, whether he believed that 

 the Pribik)f herd and Komandorski herd ever mingled, and he replied 

 that he did not. 



Thomas F. Morgan. 



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

 [l. s.] Sevellon a. Brown, 



Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia, U. iS. A. 



