458 TESTIMONY 



in the Boring- Son, during the luontlis of Juno, 'Tnly, A adjust, and Sop- 



Nuraiii'Mowskiii.d tcmber, 1 noticcd that a large number of them were 



in Bering ;sca 10-200 females aiul mothers giving milk. 1 have killed mothers 



luiles lioiu islaiuLs. -^^ ^^^-^^^ .^jj ^j^^ ^^,^^y ^^.^^^^^ ^^j ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^.,^^^ ^^.^. ^,j^_ ^.^^_ ,^,j^^ 



average hunter will tire ten times to get one seal. I tiiink on an aver- 

 age he gets about one seal out of every three killed. 

 Mother seals heavy with young are mueh easier taken, 



for they are usually asleep on the water. When a seal is shot dead it 



^ ,. . . , almost instantly sinks, and it is only seeured by stun- 



nmg it. It IS impossd)le to tell the sex ot a, seal m the 



water. The seals were mueh less plentilul the last year 



1 sealed than the lirst. 1 attribute thisdeerease to the 



hunting of them in the water, and the inereased nuniber of boats and 

 men engaged in the business in the last few years. I 



^Protection neoes- |[jj,,]. jf something is uot doue to proteet seals in the 

 IS'orth Faeitie and Jiering Sea they will become exter- 



nnnated in a very few years. 



WlI>LIAM II. LONCI. 



Subscribed and sworn to befoi'e me this 1st day of Ai)ril, A.. D. 1892. 

 [SEAL.J ClemkjNT Bennett, 



Notary PubUc. 



Deposition of Charles Lutjens, sealer. 



TELAGIO SEALINa. 



Be it remembered that on the l3<!th day of February, 1S03, at my 

 ofIi(;e, 434 (California strt-et, in the city and county of San ^'rancisco, 

 State of California, before me, Clement Bennett, a. m)tary ])nblic in ami 

 for said city and county of San Francisco, State of C'alifornia, duly 

 a|)pointed and commissioned to administer oatlis, etc., personally ap- 

 peared Ciiarles LutjcMis, who, being lirst duly sworn, testilied as follows: 



CilAilLES LuTJJ':Nfc?, having been duly sworn, testilied as ibllows: 



The ISfoTARY: 

 Q. What is your name, age, residence, and occupation 1 — A. My name 

 is Charles Lutjens; I am 50 years of age; I reside in 

 E^porfenco."'^^'"^' ^^'^^ ^'i^y, and am by occupation a seal hunter. 



Q. Are you a citizen of the United States'? — A. Yes, 

 sir. 



Q. What State are you a resident of? — A. The State of California. 

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

 the Pacitic and Bering Sea"? — A. Principally females. 



Q. What pen-entage of the skins you have taken were cowsf — A. 

 , ^^_^|^ About t)0 per cent. 

 takeu^arrfeiimi.^8,''7o Q. What percentage of the cows you have taken 

 per cent of >vhi.;i. ^vel•e with pup ? — A. About 70 per cent, I should say. 

 pregnan . ^^ Whcudoes Sealing commeuce ill tlic Piicll^c and 



commenoemontana ^vhcu docs it cud ?-A. \t commenccs about the 1st of 

 endofsoaiingsoiison. January and eiuls about the last ot -Inne, 



Q. When does sealing commence in the Bering Sea and when does 

 it end*? — A. Sealing commences in the Bering Sea about the oth of 

 July and ends about the middle of September. 



Q. What percentage of seals are taken ccmpared to 

 Waste otro. thosc you destroy in doing so; in other words, how 



