TAKEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



507 



I am 



Deposition of George Zammitt, sealer. 

 pelagic sealing. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss : 

 Georjje Zammitt, having been duly sworn, deposes and says 

 31 years of age. 1 reside in San Francisco. I am a 

 machinist by occupation. I made a sealing voyage on 

 the schooner Seventy-six about eight years ago. (Jap- 

 tain Potts was master of her. We did not hunt at all 

 going up the coast. We left here and went direct to 

 the Bering iSea. We went over to the Copper Islands, 

 on the Kussian side, but were driven away, and we 

 came back towards the St. Paul and St. George Islands 

 and caught about 200 seals. We were driven away 

 from there, and then the vessel returned to Victoria, 

 British Columbia, and I left the vessel there. We only 

 used rifles. We shot mostly females. I was boat- 

 puller and did other work also. During the voyage Ave 

 lost the mate, wlio was washed overboard, and we also ^vaste oc life 

 lost two boats at the same time in a storm. We sailed 

 from this city. We fired at all the seals we could, regardless of their 

 sex. We got one out of every six or seven we shot at or killed. 



Geoiige Zammitt. 



Experience. 

 Seventy-six, 1880. 



Entered Bering Sea. 



Went to Cop p e r 

 Islands. 



Driven away by 

 Russians. 



Caught 200 seals. 



Shot mostly females. 



Indiscriminate kill- 

 ing. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me thit- 



Ll. «.J 



nth day of April, A. D. 1S92. 

 Clement Bennett, 



Notary Fuhlic. 



