214 TESTIMONY 



I, Peter Sliaisliiiik off, hereby STvear tliat I have faitlifiilly and truly 

 interpreted the foregoing affidavit of Pud Zaotchnoi. 



Peter Shaishnikoff, 



Inter])reter 



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



Z. L. Tanner, 

 Lieut.- Commander^ U. >S'. I^^avy. 



Deposition of Samuel Kahoorof, hunter. 



HABITS. 



Attu, Chichagof Harbor, Attu Island, Aleutian Chain, 



Ten-itory of Alaska, ss: 

 Samuel Kahoorof, a native of Attu Island, 52 years of age, being 

 duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a hunter of the sea-otter and blue- 

 fox, and have lived in this vicinity all my life. Have 

 xperience. ncvcr huutcd the fur-seal. Our hunting grounds are 



about Attu, Agattu, and the Semichi Islands. Have seen only three 

 fur-seals in tliis region in twenty years; saw them in May, 1890, travel- 

 ing along the north side of Attu Island, about 5 miles off shore, and 



making a northwesterly course. They were youngmales, 

 viSt Attu^Mimd. ""* I think. Fur-seals do not regularly visit these islands 



now, but about twenty-five or thirty years ago I used 

 to see small squads of large seals during the month of June feeding and 

 sleeping about the kelp patches off the eastern shores of Attn and Agattu 



Islands. They came from the southward, and traveled 



igra ion. ^^ ^ northwcsterly direction. Never saw any fur-seals 



east of the Semichi Islands, and do not think those of the Commander 



Islands herd go farther to the eastward than that. 



They decreased in luimbers gradual Ij^, and during the 

 last twenty years have only seen the three above mentioned. Have 

 never seen a nursing or mother cow or a black or gray pup in this re- 

 gion, and do not think tbey ever visit it. 

 Do not know of any rookeries or places where fur-seals regularly haul 



out on the land or kelp to breed in the Aleutian Islands, 

 ASCtran*isfands^ ''" ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ think there is such a place. Do not know 



where the old bulls spend the winter, and do not know 

 the routes the fur-seal herds take in their migrations to and from the 



Commander and Pribilof Islands; neither do I think 

 Herds do not mix. ^^^ ^^^ Jierds couie near enough together in these lati- 

 tudes to mix. Do not know why the numbers of the fur-seals seen 

 about these islands are now less than in former years. Sealing schoon- 

 ers do not frequent these islands ; last August three of them came in 

 here for water, and then went south in a day or two. Tliey said they 

 had been to the Commander Islands. 



his 



Samuel x Kahoorof. 



juark. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of May, 1892. 



Z. L. Tanner, 

 Lieut.- Commander, U. S. JSfavy. 



