RELATING TO THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS. 213 



never stayed long, and I do not think they got any skhi.s. 1 have never 

 known of fur-seals lianling out on the shores or floating 

 kelp patches to rest or breed in this region. 1 have Aleutian ilhinds*' "" 

 never seen a mother seal or a black pup in this region. 



his 



KASSIAN X GORLOI. 



mark. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of May, 1892. 



Z. L. Tanner, 

 Lieut.- Commander^ JJ. 8. J^avy. 



I, Peter Shaishnikoif, hereby swear that I have tiiithfully and truly 

 interpreted the foregoing affidavit of Kassian Gorloi. 



Peter Shaishnikofp. 



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



Z. L. Tanner, 

 Lieut.- Commander^ JJ. S. Navy. 



Depositio7i of Fud Zaotehnoi, Second Chief of natives of Atlca Island, and 



hunter. 



HAEITS. 



Atka, ITazan Bay, Atka Island, Aleutian Chain, 



Territory of AlasJia, ss: 



Pud Zaotehnoi, a native of Amlia Island, of the Aleutian Chain, 40 

 years of age, being duly sworn, deposes and says : I am Second Chief 

 of the natives at the settlement of Atka, Atka Island, Alaska, and am 

 a hunter of fur-bearing animals, principally the sea-otter ^^ erience 

 and fox ; I have never hunted the fur-seal. The /ur-seal ^penence. 

 is only rarely seen about this region, scattering ones be- . Fur-seai rarely seen 

 ing seen occasionally dming the months of September, ^^ ''^'^^^^^y- 

 October, and November, traveling from the northward to the southward, 

 through the passes between Atka and Amlia Islands. Those seen are 

 always gray j^ups, and usually appear after a blow from 

 the northeast. The most I ever saw in any one year was _^^Maximum seen in 

 about a dozen, but never more than two or three at a y'^^y^^^- 

 time. I have met them in the passes while hunting in a bidarka. I have 

 never known them to rest on the shores or on patches 

 of floating kelp m this region. I have never seen large shore ofonkei "^ °° 

 bulls or full-growu fur-seals in this region. I do not 

 know through what passes of the Aleutian Islands the ignorant of move- 

 fur-seal herds move into Bering Sea, nor at what time ™'"*^^- 

 they do so, I have seen so few fur-seals, and never any but a few scat- 

 tering gray pups, that I am unable to form any ideas regarding the 

 decrease of the fur-seal species. 



his 



Pud X Zaotchnoi. 



mark 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of May, 1892. 



Z. L, Tanner, 

 Lieut.- Commander, U. S. Navy. 



