464 TESTIMONY 



Dejyosition of Putrid- Maroncy, scaler {hoat-i)uller), 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 

 Patrick Maroiiey, having' been duly sworn, deposes and says : 1 re- 

 side in San Francisco. My occupation is that of a sea- 

 Experieuce. uiau; I made two voyapes to the North Pacific and 



May Ellen, 1SS9. Bering Sca. In 1889 I went out in tlie May Ellen, 

 of which Capt. Alex. McLean was master, and in 1890 

 ^''''' -B«m, 1S90. y ^^^^^^ ^^^^ .^ ^jj^ j^.^^.^ j^j^^^^^ J ^.^^ .^ boat-puller on 



both voyages. We sailed from San Francisco about Christmas, in 1889, 

 and hunted along the coast up to about July. We took 130 seals off 

 the coast and put them ashore with Mr. Morse, and then went on seal- 

 ing toward the Bering Sea. Along about the 1st of 

 en^IJi^^ ^''''' ^^^^ "* '^^^^^ ^^'^ entered the Bering Sea and caught about 123 

 en ermg. seals whcu wc camc back to Victoria and I left the ves- 



catch mostly preg- scl as Capcaiu McLcau got into some trouble. The big- 

 nlTiL""'^ nursiug fe- g^^^ part of our ycar's catch off the coast were females 

 Avith pups in them, and those we caught in the Bering 

 Sea were mostly all females with milk in their breasts, 

 capons. y^^ wii^^ shotguus with ISTo. 12 shot. When we had to 



shoot at long range we used rifles. Mostly all the seals we shot at were 

 sleepers. When they were wounded we had to chase them, and then 

 sometimes would not get them. The next season, 1890, 

 enSl ^''''' """^"^ we got on the way up between 100 and 200 seals, and 

 then we entered the Bering Sea about the 18th or 19th 

 mSes?^ "'"'^^y ^*" of July, and I caught 90 seals, mostly all females. 

 There were six boats on the vessel. Some of the boats 

 would come in without a seal, after being out all day long shooting, bub 

 they would wound a great many. On an average, taking all the boats 

 f lif together, they got one out of every five or six that they 



killed or shot at. We wounded a great many that we 

 Hunted from 40 to couUl uot get. When wc werc in Bering Sea we hunted 



200 mUes fro™ islands. ^.^^^ ^^ ^^ ,,^^^^ ^^.j^^ ^^. ^^^ ^^^j islands. 



his 



Patrick x Maroney. 



niai'k. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of April, A. D. 1892- 

 [SEAL.J Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of Henry Mason [scaler). 



pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 



Henry Mason, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: T am 43 



years of age and reside in San Francisco. My occu- 



Exporience. 1891. patiou is that of a scal hunter. I went sealing on the 



Umbrina in 1891. We sailed from Victoria on the 8th 



