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numbers of seals wlien about 700 miles from Petropaulski and about 

 300 miles south of the Aleutian Islauds." 



John Williams. — ''About the 25th June [1892] we left the vicinity of 

 Kadiak Island for the Copper Island sealing-ground, at which we 

 arrived on or about the 24th July. On the voyage over, when oif the 

 Eat Islands, about 90 miles south, I saw numbers of seals travelling 

 towards those islands. To all appearance they were the same as the 

 coast seals." 



Captain James W. Todd. — "In September last [on * Enterprise'], on 

 my voyage home from the Asiatic side, I saw seals in mid-ocean 200 

 miles east- south east of Attn Island. 



"When ordered out [of Behriiig Sea] in 1891, I was about 30 miles 

 northward of Uuimak Pass. I at once sailed across the sea westward 

 to the Copper Island grounds, following a course along the 55th parallel 

 north latitude. I saw seals all the way across to tlie Commander 

 Islands. Some of the seals were sleeping, others travelling, some east, 

 some west, most of them going east." 



Charles Peters. — "Last November [1891], In returning from the Cop- 

 per Island side, I saw seals from there to 400 miles from Vancouver 

 Island coast." 



Captain A. C. Folger. — " I know of places in the North Pacific where 

 seals are to be found in abundance, but whether these seals go to the 

 Commander Islands or the Pribyloff Islands there is no way of telling, 

 I remember when near an island called Midway Island, northward of 

 the Sandwich Islands, seeing them in great numbers, such that bad I 

 been pelagic sealing I would have thought it worth while stopping to 

 hunt them, but we were anxious to get to Yokohama. These seals are 

 as likely to go to the Commander Islands as the Pribyloft' Islands, and 

 it seems to me very probable that the seals from the American islands 

 and those from' the Asiatic islauds may mingle there. I mean that 

 those that go farthest south on both sides very likely mix there. I have 

 seen Eskimo wearing clothes made of fur-seal skins when north of 

 Behring Straits when trading there, and I once saw a fur-seal lassoed 

 when north of East Cape, and on the same cruize the captain in my 

 presence shot a fur-seal from the deck of the vessel, a boat was lowered, 

 and the seal was got. The mate also shot them. I don't know where 

 these vseals came from, but am sure they were fur-seals. I have known 

 fur-seals for nearly twenty years." 



Andrew McGarva. — " On the way across [from Copper Island grounds 

 in 1892], in about latitude 50^, we saw seals every fine day. I don't 

 know which islands they belonged to." 



Captain George McDonald. — " One year, in the month of August, on 

 the ' Lily,' I got seals 200 miles south of the Shumagin Islands, and 

 I have found seals as far west as the 172nd Pass in the month of 

 September." 



Captain Melville F. Cvllen. — "I went to the Eussian side this year; 

 coming back we saw seals in the North Pacific 300 or 400 miles from 

 the Aleutian Islands in September." 



26 Maitrice Edwards. — " I went over to the Eussian side of Beh- 



ring Sea last year [1891], and I saw a few scattered seals all the 

 way across." 



George F. French. — " I found a few seals all the way across from the 

 Pribyloff" Islands to Copper Island two years ago [1890], but not many, 

 and on the way home we saw them here and there all the way from 



