418 TESTIMONY 



were motlier seals witli tlieir breasts full of milk. I saw the milk flow- 

 ing- on the deck when we skinned them. We had six boats, each boat 

 having a hunter, a boat-puller, and steerer. We used shotguns all the 

 time; we had rifles, but we did not use them. When 

 Waste ot life. .^ ^^^ rough Weather, we got one out of six that we 



killed or wounded, and in smooth weather we could get on an average 

 one out of three and sometimes three out of five. The waters werefidl 

 of them at that time. We caught them from 50 to 60 miles ofl' the seal 

 islands. 



J. Dalton. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of April A. D. 

 1892. 

 [L. s.] Clement Bennett. 



Notary Fublic. 



Deposition of Joseph Dennis, sealer. 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 

 Joseph Dennis, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I re- 

 side in San Francisco. My occupation has been that of seaman for 

 the last three years. I was on the Vanderbilt in 1888, 

 Experience. ^^_^^ bciug the ouly scaliug trip I ever made. We 



YanchiMit, 1888. Sealed from San Francisco to Queen Charlotte Island, 

 and caught between 500 and 600 seals, nearly all 

 Mostly pregnant fe- fenialcs heavy with young. I have seen alive 

 '"''^*'®' young pup taken out of its mother and kept alive for 



three or four days. We sealed from 10 to 120 miles off the coast, but 

 was never up in the Bering Sea sealing. We hunted 

 No hauling up on j^ostly with shotguus, aud captured about one-half 



coast or pelagic birtli. .,,•',.,,, t'itt ^ i i 



that we killed and wounded. I never knew or heard 

 of seals hauling up along the coast or giving birth to their young in the 

 water. 



Joseph Dennis. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2(1 day of April, A. D. 1892. 

 [SEAL.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of Richard Dolan. 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and Comity of San Francisco, ss : 



Eichard Dolan, having been duly sworn, deposes and gays; I am 



55 years of age. i reside in San Francisco. I am 



Experience. ^^ occupatlou a loiigshorcman. I nuide a sealing 



voyage to the North Pacitic and Bering Sea in 1885, 



inglea'hfisy" " OH the schooucr Alexander, of which Captain McLean 



was master. We left Victoria the latter end of Jau- 



