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with these pups; they are the young pups that are driven in by the 

 strong- north Avinds. We go out as far as the cape at the mouth of 

 Makushin Riy and iind the pups here and there; they are never to- 

 gether in great nuniliers. I never knew any ohl seals 

 of any kind to haul out on the shores in this vicinity, A^utiau^siamL^ "° 

 nor have I ever heard any old men say they ever saw 

 any old seals haul out. 



It is harder to find the pups now than it was a few years ago. 

 There does not seem to be so many of them as there 



, . , "^ De(;reaso of pups. 



used to be. 



Ivan Kkukoff. [In Russian.] 

 Attested : 



Innokenti Shayashnikoff, 



Interpreter. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of June, 1892. 



J. Stanley Brown, 



United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of S. Melavidoff and, Darid Salamatoff, native residents of 



Unalaska. 



HABITS. 



Personally appeared before me S. Melavidoff and David Salmatoflf, 

 who, being duly sworn, depose and say: We are natives of Alaska, 

 are now and have been for the past twenty years residents of Unalaska. 



The only seals taken by the natives of this place are the this season's 

 pups that go through the i^asses during the period be- 

 tween the last of October and the last of November. ^perieuce. 

 The northerly winds bring them in the direction of this harbor, and the 

 natives go out in their bidarkas and spear and shoot The only seals taiien 

 them for food. Sometimes we find old male seals with by natives of unaias- 

 theni, but we dare not attack them in the bidarka. The ^'selisdo^not'hani'up 

 mothers are not with them, and theie are usnally no i" vicinity. 

 seals of older age with them. They are the weaker of the pups, the 

 stronger ones going on through the passes. No old seals haul out on 

 shore here. 



I, S, Melavidoff, am 53 years of age. I, David Salamatoff, am 67 

 years of age. 



S. Melavidoff. 

 D. Salamatoff. 



Attested : 



EUDOLFH URNMANN, 



Interpreter. 



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

 [SEAL. J C. L. Hooper, 



Notary Fuhlie, Dist. of Alaska. 

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