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years. My first trip was on the Charles Wilson, of - , ,., 

 which Oapt. Eobert Turner was master, and tlie next 

 was in the Vandcrhilf, and the hust was in the G. G. White. 

 We sailed from !San 1^'rancisco on these trips. I left 

 here on the (7//a/7r.v 1V'//.SY>», in the early part of March, 

 and we followed np the coast, catching a few seals on 

 our way, we were working our way right up north. We did not hunt 

 in the Bering Sea that year, but hunted in the JSTorth Pacific, catch- 

 ing some 300 seals. I was a boat puller. The hunters used rifles and 

 shotguns. They got about one out of every six they 

 shot at or killed, and sometimes they got none. The ''■'*"^' ^ °^ ' 

 greater maiority of them were females. I could not tell t,^ , ,.,, 



^ , , , T 1 ^ 1 T -1 -J. ■ ii Most ol those talvcn 



whether a seal was a male or iemale while it was m the femnies in pup or 

 water unless it was an old bull. Mostly all the females '"'^""g- 

 killed has unborn pups or were cows giving milk. We did not kill 

 any on the islands. We never went in close enough. We Idlled 

 females giving milk more than 100 miles from the seal islands. Most 

 all the seals sunk or dove out of sight when killed or wounded and a 

 great many of them we could not get. 



The next vessel I Avent on was the Vanderbilt. We did not enter the 

 Bering Sea on that trip either. We got about 350 seals, most all fe- 

 males. She was wrecked and we came down on the 

 Dora, belonging to the Alaska Commercial C!<)m])any. van<jeibiifv.-i-ec\iea. 

 The next trip was on the C. G. White. That trip we Mostly females. 

 entered the Bering Sea on the Russian side, and hunted c. a. white. 

 all the coast of Japan to the Bering Sea. I do not 

 know if we were on the American side or not. We got about COO seals 

 on that trip. They were nearly all females. I noticed Avhen we skinned 

 them that they were females in millv, as the milk would ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ 

 run from their breasts on to the decks. We got back *^'^' ■ ^ 

 here in September, and landed our skins here. There Decrease. 

 were not as many seals last year as there were the first years I went. 



William Frazer. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of April, A.D,, 1892. 

 [L. s.] Clement Bennet, 



Notary Ftihlic. 



Deposition of Edward W. FuncT^e, scaler. 



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 public in and 

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

 pointed and commissioned to administer oaths, etc., personally appeared 

 Edward W. Funcke, who being first duly sworn, testified as follows: 



Edward W. Funcke, having been duly sworn, testified as follows: 

 The Notary: 



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

 is Edward W. Funcke; age, 27; residence, at San Francisco; occupation, 

 seal hunter. 



