406 TESTIMONY 



Fur seal '^ 0^"^°^* ally fiir-seul liaiiliiig- upon the coast elsewhere than on 

 wlfere^tbLf on Piib- the Pribih)f Islands. If pelagic sealing is stopped in 

 iiot Islands. Bcriug Sca for a number of years seal would become 



Protection. plentiful again J if not stopped they will soon be exter- 



minated. 



Martin Benson. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Thomas Bradley^ sealer {ho at puller). 



PELAaiC SEALING. 



State of California. 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 



Thomas Bradley, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside 



in San Francisco. My occupation is that of a seaman. 



Maggie Ross, 1884. j^^ ^^g^ j shipped ou tlic Magfjic Boss as a boat-pullcr 



for a sealing voyage to tlie North Pacific and Bering Sea. We left 



Victoria about May, going north, and sealed all the way to the Bering 



Sea. We had about sixty before entering the Bering Sea, nearly all 



of which were females with young pups in them. We entered the 



Bering Sea the middle of May and captured 300 while 



Mostly pregnant in thcrc. Most of thcsc wcre mother seals with their 



®'^'^^*' breasts full of milk. We had six boats, four men to a 



boat, two boat-pullers and a steerer and hunter. We 



Eifles used. killed them with rifles. We used to shoot at anything 



we ran across, and got about a third of what we killed 



Tvvothirds lost. ^^. wounded. I do liot know how many miles off the seal 



islands we were when we caught them, as I did not know the distances. 



Thos. Brapley. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15tli day of April, A. D. 

 1892. 

 [seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of Thomas Bromn {JVo. 2), scaler. 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 

 Thomas Browu, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside 

 .in San Francisco. My occuiiation is that of a laborer. I made a seal- 

 ing voyage to the N^orth Pacific and Bering Sea on 

 der,i88l',S'rfngS thc Alexander, of which Captain McLean was master. 

 We sailed from Victoria in January, 1885, going south 



