282 TESTIMONY 



!Mo pelagic birth. 



any pups to be bor]i in the water or on the land any- 

 where in Ahiska. I have never known any fur-seal to 

 haul up on the land. Old fables tell us that they 



ro^"t ""^ '"^"^ "'^ ''^ hauled up at one time, but I have been unable to learn 

 that they ever did. Never seen any fur-seal anywhere 



around this island or in any of the inland waters. 



Henry Haldane. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of May, 1802. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Jaclc Johnson, sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING, 



Jack Johnson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 39 years 



old, and was born at Tongrass, and now live at Wrangel. Am a hunter 



. by occupation, and have hunted fur-seal in Queen 



xpenence. Charlotte Sound, using shotgun exciusively. Quite a 



number of seals are lost; I don't know how many. 



fi'il* '''" P''*'""''"* Most of the seals taken are females with pup. Once 



in a while an old bull is killed. Everything in the 



Decrease shape of a Seal that comes near the boat is shot. Seal 



are not nearly as plentiful on the coast as in former 



No eia<ric birth times. Havo never known pups to be born in the water 



opeagic HI 1. ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ land in this part of Alaska. Have never 



known or heard of fur-seals hauling up on the land on 



co^sl""* ^'''"' "f" "" the coast of Alaska. My idea is 'that there are too 



many camp-fires around on the coast of Alaska that 



scares the seal out to sea. Tlie seal smell the smoke and won't come 



near the land; and there are a large number of people shooting seal, 



which scares them away also. 



his 



Jack x Johnson. 



mark. 



Witness to his mark : 

 J. M. Potter. 

 A. W. Lavender, 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of May, 1802. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Johnnie Johntin, sealer. 

 PELAGIC SEALING. 



Johnnie Johntin, being duh^ sworn, deposes and says: I belong to 



Klawak, where I was born. Am now living at Sliakan. 



Experience. • Am by occupatiou a hunter; have been hunting seal 



and land animals since a boy. Have always hunted 



seal off Prince of Wales Island in spring and early summer. Have 



always used shotgun and rifle for taking seal. I never lose any 



A large proportion ^^al whcu I slioot tlieiii, bccause I always shoot them 



killed pregnant fe- closc to. A large proportion of scals killed by me wcrc 



^^ ^^' cows with pup. Have killed a very few old bulls and 



