TAKEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. 445 



ruary, 1892, at my office, rooms 12 and 13, 234 California street, in the 

 city and connty of San Francisco, in the State of California, and were 

 reduced to writing by me. 



In witness whereof, J have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed 

 my seal of office this 9th day of February, A. D. 1892. 



[seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Fuhlic. 



Deposition of Martin Hannon {sealer), 



pelagic sealing. 



Martin Hannon, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside at 

 Victoria, British Columbia. I am by occupation a seal 

 hunter. Have been engaged in sealing the last three Experience. 

 years on the British schooners Triumph, Walter Rich, 

 BorealiSjUud f/'W&nno, and the German schooner Adele. T_',^'^'"^^_' yaiter 

 First find and take seal in January off Columbia Eiver. hrink, AdeiV^' "*' 

 They are then advancing up the coast. We follow 

 them until they enter Bering Sea about July 1st. I use Migration. 

 the shotgun exclusively for taking seal. About 65 per 

 cent of the seal hit are lost. A large majority of seals Large majority preg- 

 taken are females with young. Only two old bulls "''"' *'™'''''- 

 were taken by me last year out of the 100 seals taken. But very 

 few yearlings are taken. Paid no attention to sex. A few male 

 seals are taken between two and four years old, I think. 

 Majority of the seals taken in Bering Sea are females females.''^ nursing 

 with milk in them. Have killed them full of milk 100 

 miles fi'om the seal islands. I use no discrimination in 

 sealing, but shoot everything that comes near the boat ^"'^'scriminate. 

 regardless of sex. Have never known of any imps to be born in the 

 water or on the land outside of the Pribilof Islands. 

 Have never known any ftir seal to haul up on the land ^'^ ^^^^^'"^ ^''*^- 

 elsewhere than on the Pribilof Islands. I think a ^ J^grriban"^ "^p'T 

 closed season should be established between May 1st iiotr** 

 and September loth in North Pacific Ocean and Bering- 

 Sea, which would give them a chance to increase. Protection. 



Martin Hannon. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of May, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Dcpositio7i of William Hermann (scaler). 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 

 William Hermann, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am by 

 occujjation a seal and otter hunter. My present resi- 

 dence is in San Francisco. I have been engaged in Experience. 

 seal and otter hunting eleven years in the Okhotsk Sea 



