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seal question that I have not asked you; anything you would like to 

 say, yon can give your opinion about? — A. Well, in my opinion I think 

 that American vessels should be allowed the same privilege as other 

 nations in the matter of hunting in the Bering Sea. 



e. w. funckb. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 



I, Clement Bennett, a notary public in and for said city and county 

 of San Francisco, do hereby certify that the witness in the foregoing 

 deposition named was by me duly sworn to testify the truth, the whole 

 truth, and nothing but the truth; that sanl deposition was reduced to 

 writing, and when completed was carefuljy read over to said witness 

 and by him subscribed in my presence. 



In witness wliereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed 

 my seal of office this 2Gth day of February, 1892. 



[SEAL.] 



Clement Bennett, 



Notary Fublio. 



Bcjiosition of John Fyfe, sealer {boat-puller). 



PELAGIC sealing. 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 

 John Fyfe, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside in 

 San Francisco. My occupation is that of a sealer. I 

 made a sealing voyage to the North Pacific and Ber- Experience. 

 ing Sea on the schooner Alexander, of which David Alexander, isso. 

 McLean was master. I was a boat puller. We sailed 

 from Victoria about the latter part of January, 1885. We went south 

 and sealed between Cape Blanco and the Columbia River for two months 

 when we went north and sealed all the way up to the Bering Sea. We 

 caught about 100 seals before entering the sea. Ov^er 

 100 of them were cows. We entered the Bering Sea i^ ypercen cows. 

 about April and we got 795 in there, the largest part of Majority taken in 

 which were mother seals in milk. When we were skin- f^l^^" ^^^ milking 

 ning them the milk would run on the deck. We had 

 six boats on board, each boat having a hunter, two boat-pullers, and a 

 steerer, four men to a boat. We used rifles. We had 



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experienced hunters on board and we got one out of out of three. 

 every three killed or wounded. We killed some of them 

 from 50 to 100 miles off the seal islands, and were very 'rook some so to loo 

 tame. When we shot the seals dead they would sink "^^i^^ f^o- inlands. 

 and we would not get them. 



John Fyfe. 



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

 1892. 

 [l. s.] Clement Bennett, 



Notiiry Fublic. 



