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Attn Island to San Francisco. Last year [1891] I entered tlie Sea by tlie 

 172nd Pass, and again found a few seals all the way to Copper Island. 

 Coming home we went to Victoria from Attn, and found a few seals all 

 the way. I believe the seals go from one side of Behring Sea to the 

 other, as some years when the seals are very abundant on the Alaskan 

 side, and a large catch would be expected in Behring Sea [i.e., on 

 American side], it would not be made, and it would be found that a 

 great many seals would be taken on the Russian side, although there 

 had not been more than usual on the coast there. I learned from a 

 hunter on the 'Teresa' last year that a large band of seals had been 

 met with 280 miles northeast of Copper Island, travelling towards 

 Copper Island. This was in the early part of July." 



Charles Gcmphell.—^^ Last year [1891] we saw seals on the way across 

 [to Asiatic waters] whenever the weather was fine; there was no way 

 of telling when we saw the last of the seals that frequent the Pribylofif 

 Islands, and met the first of those that were going to the Commander 

 Islands." 



Captain 8. W. Buckman.—^<- In that year [1886] we passed through 

 seals for two days and a part of a third, about 150 miles south of the 

 Aleutian Islands. We moved at the rate of about 9i miles an hour. 

 We saw the last of them about the 172nd meridian [this would be from 

 longitude of Rat Islands to longitude of Atka]. The captain and 

 mate of the ' Zambesi ' have told me that in January last they saw the 

 seals in about the same place, or a little to the west of where I saw 

 them. When I saw them they were about as plentiful as sealers gen- 

 erally find them, but the officers of the ' Zambesi ' report them as being 

 much more abundant than that." 



William. Hdicards.—^^hast year [1S91] I went over to the Russian 

 side of Behring Sea; we saw a few seals all the way across." 



Captain Thomas CLeary. — ''I went across to the Russian side of the 

 Behring Sea last year [1891]. We found a few seals nearly all the way 

 across." 



Charles Otis Burns in 1891 and 1892, in going to the Asiatic side of 

 the North Pacific, saw "scattering seals all the way over, and saw the 

 same this year. The course both years was from 30 to 60 miles off the 

 Aleutian Islands." 



W. 0. Hughes saw during the first week in July seals "between the 

 172nd Pass and the western islands of the Aleutian group from 30 to 60 

 miles off' the south shore." 



George Wester says: "In travelling from the American to the Asiatic 

 side of* Behring Sea from the middle of June to the middle of July, I 



have seen seals all the way across on fine days In the 



month of September, coming from the Commander Islands to Cape 

 Flattery on or about the 50th parallel, have seen more or less seals 

 every day. I have seen seals in all the passes in the Aleutian Islands 

 that'l haVe entered between Unimak and Attn Island." 



Captain Charles Lutjens, when returning from the Commander Islands 

 to San Francisco in 1892, south of the Aleutian Islands, " noticed seals 

 more or less every day." 



Captain Charles Hartiwen, sixteen years' experience, has crossed from 

 the American to the Asiatic coast about the latter part of June, and 

 from the Asiatic to the American coast in September, "and have seen 



seals off" and on almost every tine (lay on the passages . 



I have crossed to the Commander Islands, keeping south of the Aleu. 



