TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 List of Deponents iii 



Synopsis oi" Evidence relating to certain subjects contained in the Affidavits 



and Statements annexed 1^2 



Affidavits and Declarations: — 



(I.) Testimony relating to pelagic sealing 43-139 



(II.) Testimony of Indians engaged in pelagic sealing and in independ- 

 ent seal-hunting 140-166 



(III.) Testimony on various points relating to seals and sealing 167-188 



(IV.) Logs of sealing vessels 189-214 



(V.) Analysis of affidavits as to value of schooners 215-219 



(VI.) Evidence as to value of sealing schooners 220-230 



(VII.) Declarations by members of the fur trade 230-253 



Table showing Quantities of Fur-Seal Skins of all descriijtions offered 

 annually for public sale, and known private sales in London, from the 



year 1827 to the year 1869 inclusive 254 



Abstract of Catalogues of Alaskan Seal Public Sales, showing number of 

 different sizes sold annually in London, and the percentage of small and 



large sizes 255-256 



Abstract of Catalogues of North-west Coast Seal Public Sales, showing num- 

 ber of different sizes sold annually in Loudon, and showing percentage of 

 skins which could not possibly, by reason of their Bize, be skins of bear- 

 ing females 257-259 



Letters from Messrs. Lampson 261-264 



Memorandum of Mr. G. Gleadowe, of the Britisli Treasury Department, on 



the general Condition and Character of the Canadian Sealing Fleet 265-266 



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