TESTIMONY TAKEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



Depositiori of Charles Adair, siahr {Icat-imller). 



pelagic sealing. 



State of Califoenia, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 

 Charles Adair, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am by 

 occupation a sailor. I reside in Port Town send. I have made two 

 ^^ ^..^^ sealing voyages in the Iiforth Pacific and Bering Sea as 



xp nei,ce. scaman and boat-puller. In 18S9 I went onthe Ameri- 



jamesG.Su an. 1880. can schooucr Jamcs G. Stcan, and the other, in 1890, in 

 sogie oisen,i8io. the British schooner i?06"?e Olsen, of which Captain Mc- 

 Lean was master. We left about the 1st of March in 

 the James G. Sic an, the \oy age being made about Cape I'lattery, the 

 mouths of the Straits of Puca and the entrance of Puget Sound, and 

 Tela icseaiiu<r- fe ^'^^^ goue about six wcclis. We caught about 185 

 males' princfpaify ta- scals, mostly Icmalcs in young, and we killed them 

 ^™- ^'hile they were asleep on the water. The first day I 



hunted we killed 15, and used rifles and shotguns, but we used the 

 Waste of life shotguus mostly. We secured one out of about every 



five that we shot at or killed. 

 The Bosie Olsc7i left Victoria about the 5th of March and went down 

 to Neah Bay, down to Cape Flattery, about 80 miles south. We cruised 

 around there about five weeks, and had about 275 seals, when we started 

 north. Then we went to Queen Charlotte Sound on up to the Bering- 

 Bering Sea time of ^^*" Reentered the Bering Sea through Muckawa 

 entering. ' ° Pass about the 1st of July, and commenced hunting 

 ^ , , seals wherever we could find them, among which were 



Female seals in milk , . • •-,, i • i ^ •^^ -i i- 



30 to 150 miles from a great uiauy cows giving milk, which we killed from 



islands. 30 to 150 miles from the islands. We had a row on 



. . board because some of the hunters were green hands 



enced! ^^' ^^^^P*'"' and the men would not go out in the boats with them. 



They took the hunters out of our boats and put them 



into the other boats that made no catch, and then we kicked that they 



should put the green hunters into our boats, because everything they 



would shoot would sink on them and were lost. We cruised around 



there for awhile and finally the captain thought he would try the 



uUer a ' f i^^^nds. We got -$30 a month, and 25 cents from the 



oa -pu er, payo. j^^^^^^^.g ^^^^ 25 ccuts for cach skill off the boat. We 



Raiding the islands, rcfuscd to go Oil the islaiids Oil tliosG tcrms, as we did 



not care to take the risk unless he gave us $1.25 a skin. 



The captain would not give us that, so we cruised around again and at 



last we came to terms, the captain agreeing to give us $1 a skin. Wethen 



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