TAKEN IN OR NEAR DIXON ENTRANCE. 285 



part of Alaska, nor do I believe tliat old fable that is Do not, haul u]) ..n 

 told by some of tlie old ineu thatfnr-seal oucedid haul *^'"^'**' 

 up here, or any other part of Alaska outside of the Seal Islands. I think 

 if the schooners were i^rohiblted from taking seal, they would become 

 plentiful, as they were years ago. 



his 



Frederick x Mason. 



mark. 



Witness to his mark : 

 David Leask. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



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



A. W. Lavender, 

 United IStatcs Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Amos Mill, sealer. 

 PELACIC SEALING. 



Amos Mill, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born in Brit- 

 ish Columbia; lam about 50 years old, and now reside in New Metla- 

 kahtla ; have been a hunter all my life ; have hunted fur- 

 seal in canoes ; my lodge is on Dundas Island, and I hunt ^^1'*'"™°''- 

 oft" Prince of Wales Island, in Queen Charlotte's Sound and Dixon's En- 

 trance; have always used the shotgun for taking seal; about 20 per cent 

 of the seals I shoot with shotgun are lost ; most all the 

 seals killed by me have been females with pup ; the f^^^^X kuiocr""''"* 

 seal hunting commences in March and ends about 

 the middle of June; the seal are constantly going Migration. 

 north during that time; I shoot all seal that come near 

 the boat, regardless of sex; have never killed but two 

 old bulls in my life; I have killed a few young bulls, i„J°'i'«'^^'""''>''^t« km 

 and plenty of yearling seal; never examined them as 

 to sex; I have never known any pujis to be born in the ^o pcinnic birtb. 

 water or any on the land in this part of Alaska ; I have 

 never seen any seal hauled out on the land anywhere 

 around this part of Alaska; I have seen a few fur- seals eoSt.""^ '"""' "^' "" 

 in the waters near Prince of Wales Island in the 

 months of May and June. 



liis 



Amos x Mill. 



mark. 



Witness to his mark: 

 David Leask. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



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



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



