RELATING TO THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS. 207 



Deposition of Paul Eej)in, sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Personally appeared before me Paul Repiii, wlio, being duly sworn, 

 deposes and says: I am 57 years of age; was born in Unalaska, wliere 

 I have lived all my life; and am a native of Alaska. For many years 

 I Avas a sea-otter and seal hunter, and for eight years in my younger 

 days I made trips with the priest to Uuga and other villages in the 

 vicinity. 



I have heard the statement made by Puth Burdu- Confirmation of 

 kofski, and from my knowledge of the tacts know the Buidukolskf ^'^""' 

 same to be true. 



His 



Paul x Pepin. 



mark. 



Witness: 



J. Stanley Brown. 

 Attested : 



PUDOLPH URNMANN, 



Interpreter. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of June, 1892. 

 [SEAL.] C. L. Hooper, 



Notary Public, District of Alaslca. 



Deposition of Charles J. Hague, master mariner. 



habits— pelagic sealing. 



iLiULiuK, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, 



Territory of Alasl(a, ss: 

 Charles J. Hague, a citizen of the United States of America, 53 years 

 of age, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 

 Alameda, Cal., and am a master mariner by occupation. ^penenco. 

 I have been cruising steadily in Alaskan waters since the year 1878. 

 I have sailed principally about various j)arts of the Aleutian Islands, 

 as far west as Attn, to which island I have made about twenty trips 

 from Unalaska, mostly in the spring and fall of the year. I do not re- 

 member ever having seen a fur-seal in the water between the Four 

 Mountain Islands and Attn Island. The main body of jjj^,jtj^,jj 

 the fur-seal herd bound to and from the Pribilof Islands '^'^ **"*■ 

 move through the passes of the Fox Islands, Uiiimak on the east and 

 the West Pass of Umnak on the west, being the limits between which 

 they enter Bering Sea in any number. I do not know through what 

 passes the different categories move, or the times of their movements. 

 Parely see fur-seals in the Pacific between San Francisco and the im- 

 mediate vicinity of the passes. I think the fur seal HenisofCommaiKi- 

 herds of the Commander and Pribilof islands are sep- er au<i Pribiiot' is- 

 arate bodies of the fur-seal species, whose numbers do lands do not nnngio. 

 not mingle with eacli other. In the latter part of September of 1867, 

 in the brig Kentuchy, making passage between Petropaulowski and 

 Kodiak I observed the Commander Islands seal herd on its way irom 

 the rookeries. They moved in a comi)act mass or school, after tlie nnin- 

 ner of herring, and were making a w^esterly course towards the Kurile 

 Islands. 



