TAKEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. -iG3 



pay much attention to the sex of the seals, but I seen lots of little pups 



taken out of them. Each year we would enter the 



Bering Sea about June, and we sealed from 50 to 150 ^^^^1^^ ^^'-"^ *'™® "^ 



miles Irom the islands. The first year we caught about 



700 seals in the sea, and we caught very big catches in 1888 and 



1889, but last year we only caught 150. Most of them 



were cow seals, having given birth to their young, and ^J^"^^,^^ mirsing 



.1-1 j_ 1 T -11 • j_i X ^1 -11 • COWS taken. 



their breasts had milk in them. I saw the milk running 

 out of their breasts on the deck as they were being skinned. The 

 seals were not nearly as plentiful in 1891 as they were 

 in 1888. I think they are decreasing rapidly. We had 

 Indian hunters, who used shotguns. The Indian hunters are more ex- 

 pert than the white hunters and they do not lose so waste of lifo 

 many seals they kill. I think they would get one out 

 every two or three killed or wounded. We were or- . orriered out of Ber- 

 dered out of the Bering Sea in August and went back ^"s^*^^- 

 to Victoria. 



his 



Thomas x Madden. 



luark. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April, A, D. 1892. 

 [seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of James Maloy {sealer). 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



State of Oaltfoenia, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 

 James Maloy, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 50 

 years of age, I reside in San Francisco. My occupa- 

 tion is that of a seaman. I was in the North Pacific Experience. 

 and Bering Sea in 1889. I went out in the Mafffiie 

 i^oss, which sailed from Victoria in the month of Febru- „ . „ 



-ITT -1 1 XI i. 1 1 X J- 1 -Marfgie Boss, 1889. 



ary. vVe sailed up the coast and caught a lew seals, 



until we got to the Bering Sea. We caught 1,100 seals, ^,,.„ . ^ 



1 1 1 n 1 • 1 1 J. • XI T-> • a Catch in Beriiiff Sea. 



nearly all of which were caught m the Bering Sea. 



We caught them around St. George Island. I think 



out of the 1,100 we caught there were COO females. Out Fifty-four per cent 



of that GOO there were" over 400 that had pups inside thMsTe^S!'*'^"" 



of them, and we threw them all overboard. We had 



eight boats, each boat having a boat-puller, steerer, and hunter. The 



hunter used rifles and shotguns. I do not think our 



hunters got one-half of those they killed or wounded, waste of life. 



Tlu^y would sink before we could get our boat up to 



them. I have given uj) tlie sealing business because Decrease. 



the slaughtering of the female seals is making them 



so scarce that it does not pay. Something, certainly, Protection necea- 



should be done to stop the killing, or there will be ^^''^' 



none left in a very short time. 



Jas. Maloy. 



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

 189l». 

 [seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Fublic. 



