460 TESTIMONY 



111 witness wliereof I liave hereunto subscribed my name and affixed 

 my seal of office, this 26tli day of February, 1892. 



[seal,.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Fuhlic. 



Deposition of Thomas Lyons, sealer {hoat-puller). 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 

 Thomas Lyons, having- been duly sworn, deposes and says: I reside 

 . in San Francisco. My occupation is that of a seaman. 



i^xpenence. ^^ ^^^^ ,^^^^ ^^ February, 1887, I left the port of Vic- 



toria, British Columbia, on a sealing voyage to the North Pacific and 

 , ,^„, Bering Sea. I went on the schooner Triumph, of which 



Tnuviph, 1887. /■>( . 7^ j_ t t i ' j ,, 



Capt. Cox was master. I was engaged as a boat-puller. 



We went first south as far as Cape Blan(;o, sealing around there for 



about two months, when we started north to the Bering Sea. We were 



sealing all the way up and succeeding in capturing 138 seals before 



-^ . ., ^ , entering- the Bering Sea. The maiority of those were 



Majority taken .^ -, , * .• /. i • i i V • n 



cows, moatiy preg- COWS, the largest portiou of which had pups in them. 

 ^''^^- I know that from the fact of seeing them taken out and 



Bering Sea, time of throwu ovcrboard. We went into the Bering Sea about 

 entering. ^^^ 26th or 28th of Juuc, and while in there we caught 



Nearly all taken 389 scals, nearly all of which were mother seals in milk, 

 niirsingheas. which fact I kiiow from seeing the milk flow on the 



deck while we were skinning them. We took them a good ways from 

 the islands, but do not know how many miles. We had six boats, and 

 a hunter, boat-puller, and steerer for each boat, and used shotguns. 



Waste of life '^^^' ^^^^^^^^^^ would get ou au average two out of every 



six that he wounded or killed. Seals were quite plenti- 

 ful at that time, and there were lots of them destroyed that we did not 

 get. 



Thomas Lyons. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April, A. D. 

 1892. 



[l. s.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of William Mclsaac, sealer {hoat-steerer and puller). 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 



William Mclsaac, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 



a sailor, and reside at San Francisco. I went to the 



Experience. Bering Sea in the American schooners Alexander and 



Alexander, 1889. Otter iu the years 1889 and 1890. We commenced 



hunting ofi:' the coast here and followed the seals 



toward the Bering Sea. I was emjjloyed as boat-steerer and puller. The 



