TAKEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. 411 



the fisliing banks just north and close by the Aleutian Archipelago. 

 Most of the seals we killed going- up the coast were 

 females heavy with pup. I think 9 out of every 10 fema^ls^knied'^''^'™' 

 were females. At least 7 out of 8 seals caught in the 

 Bering Sea were mothers in milk. The vessels I went out in had from 

 4 to 6 boats each. Each boat had 3 men, a hunter, and 2 pullers. 

 Tlie average hunter would get 1 out of every 3 that he 

 shot; a poor hunter not nearly so many. There are 21 asteof hfe. 

 buckshot to a shell. I think a great many seals are wounded by hunt- 

 ers that are not taken. The gunshot wounds more seals than the rifle. 

 I think the aim of the hunter is to kill the seal rather than wound it. 

 When they are in school sleeping we get a good many. We did not get 

 as many we shot at in the Bering Sea as we did on the coast. If we got 

 1 out of every 3 that we wounded in thG Bering Sea we 

 were doing pretty well. I do not know of any place PribirofishmTs!^ °" 

 where the seals haul up on this coast except on the seal 

 islands. 



ChAS. OHAI.LALL. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of April, A. D. 1892. 

 [l. s.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of Daniel Claussen, sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Be it remembered, that on the 26th day of February, 1892, at my 

 office, 434 California street, in the city and county of San Francisco, 

 State of California, before me, Clement Bennett, a notary pubhc in and 

 for said city and county of San Francisco, State of California, duly 

 appointed and commissioned to administer oaths, etc., personally ap- 

 l^eared Daniel Claussen, who, being first duly sworn, testified as fol- 

 lows: 



Daniel Claussen, having been duly sworn, testified as follows: 



By the Notary : 



Q. What is your name, age, residence, and occupation? — A. My name 

 is Daniel Claussen; age, 32; I reside in San Francisco and am by occu- 

 pation a seal hunter. 



Q. Are you a citizen of the United States? — A. I am; yes, sir. 



Q. What State are a resident off — A. California. 



Q. Have you been engaged in catching seals in the Pacific and Bering 

 Sea, and for how long? — A. I have been engaged in -p. ■ 

 sealing in the Pacific and in Bering Sea for the last six '^pe"euoe. 

 years. 



Q. Do you know of what sex the seals were that you have taken in 

 the Pacific; and Bering Sea? — A. Mostly female. 



Q. What percentage of the skins you have taken were cows! — A. 

 About 80 per cent. 



Q. What percentage of the cows you have taken Mostly pregnant fe- 

 were with pup? — A. About 70 per cent. males. 



Q. Is it not a fact that you destroy a large percentage of seals that 

 you do not catch ! — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What is that percentage? — A. We catch about 7 ^ ^ .,., 



1 j_ /» -I rw W3flt6 01 llI6« 



seals out ol 10. 



