222 TESTIMONY 



Deposition of William Bohde, hiinter [mmter)^ residing on Kadiak Island. 



HABITS, 



William Eolide, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a resident 

 Ex erience ^^ ^*' ^^^\ Kodiak, Alaska, and am captain of alinnt- 



xpenence. ^^^ ^^^ trading sclioouer. I have resided in Alaska 



six years, and in all that time followed the calling of a hunter. 



Beginning at Cooks Inlet, in the spring, we find seals 



intetSay^ ^°°^' off the inlet in May traveling westward along the coast 



towards the Bering Sea. I never hunted fur-seals, but 



1 have a knowledge of their habits and movements, 



^. Pelagic buthimpos- ^^^^ j ^^^^^ g^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^j -j^ ^^^ wi^iQv, uor ou a bed 



of kelp, and I know a pup seal could not live and 

 thrive on a kelp bed. I know of no place where fur- 

 isS."^ °°^'' "" ""^ weals haul out on land except the seal islands of Bering 

 Sea, nor have I ever heard of such a place. 



W. EOHDE. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of April, 1892. 



Joseph Murray, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deimsition of Peter Titchenoff, storcl<eeper for Alasla Commercial Com- 

 pany, residing on Kadialc Island. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Peter Titchenoff, a resident of St. Paul, Kodiak, Alaska, being duly 



Ex erience swom, dcposcd aud Said: lam a native of Alaska. 



xpenence. ^^^^ ^^ ycars old. I am storekeeper for the Alaska 



Commercial Co. I am acquainted with the coast from 



lofkeries ak)ng^oas*t!^ Sitka to Kodiak. I do not know of any rookery along 



the coast nor have I ever heard of any. 



Peter Titchenoff. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13tli day of Aj)ril, 1892. 



Joseph Murray, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of John C. Tolman, United States deputy collector on Kadiah 



Island. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



John C. Tolman, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am U. S. 

 deputy collector. Eesided nearly two years at Ko- 

 xpenence. diak in Capacity of deputy collector. The seal are 



taken off Kodiak Island about the 1st of June. The hunters use shot- 

 guns and rifles exclusively for taking seal. I think that from what 1 

 have been able to learn, about half the seal shot are lost, the hunters 

 being unable to secure tliem before they sink. From 

 pr^nlantfemafe^.^''' what I havc becu able to Icam the majority of seals 

 imiiscrimmate kill- takcu arouud Kodiak are females. Hunters use no 

 ^^' discrimination in taking seal, but kill everything that 



pokes its head out of water near the boat. Sealers report that seals 

 Deere e '^^^ "*^^ '^^ plentiful as in former years. Scarcity of seal 



ecrease. ^^^ ^^ attributed to no other cause than pelagic hunt- 



