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Copper Island grounds, outside of and about 75 or 80 miles south of the 

 Aleutian Islands. Saw seals every day on the voyage from Amutka 

 Pass to Attn Island." Seven were at different times shot from the deck, 

 and a boat lowered to get them. These seals were traveling towards 

 Behring Sea in a westerly direction. On the return voyage seals were 

 seen about 60 miles south of Attu. 



Frank Moreau. — " We left Copper Island about the 12th August 

 [1892], and arrived in San Francisco about the 20th September, and 

 kept to the south of the Aleutian Islands. I noticed seals more or less 

 all the way across." 



Captain G. Scott. — " In crossing from the American to the Asiatic 

 coast I have noticed seals every day more or less. ... I think that 

 both the American and Eussian seals are taken about the Equatorial 

 Islands, and are there mingled together in the winter months." 



YllJ.-^^tatements showing the occurrence of Fur-seals to the South of the 

 Aleutian Iskmds during the Summer Months. 



Captain Charles J. Harris. — " In August 1890 I saw seals about 300 

 miles from [south of] Kadiak, and in August 1891 I saw seals about 250 

 miles from Kadiak. 



" I have seen seals as far south as Queen Charlotte Islands in August." 



Captain E. 0. Lavender. — "Coming home this year [from Kadiak] I 

 saw four sleeping seals off Cape Flattery, 21st Julyj one was shot. It 

 was a barren female in good health, for I carefully examined it." 



W. T. Bragg. — "I went to the Eussian side this year, and on the way 

 home in September I saw seals in the North Pacific about 500 miles from 

 laud. I have seen them in about the same place in previous years. 



"In August 1888 I saw sleeping seals in the water near the Scott 

 Islands, that is, within 20 miles from the said islands, and have heard 

 other seal-hunters make statements that they had also seen seals 

 there." 



28 Ralph Starrat. — " I have seen a very few seals in the autumn 



in the ocean between the Aleutian Islands and Vancouver Island." 



James McRae. — "We saw three or four seals south of the Aleutian 



Islands last year in the early part of September, as we returned from 



Copper Island." 



William Cowie. — "On the way home last year [from Behring Sea] I 

 saw a few seals in mid- ocean in September." 



Joseph Brown. — " In 1890 we killed a seal in mid-ocean when return- 

 ing to Victoria in September on the ' E. B. Marvin,' and in November 

 of the same year, when on the ' Triumph,' I saw four seals 300 or 400 

 miles off Queen Charlotte Islands." 



Ernest Lorenz. — "In 1890, on the way home [from Behring Sea], I saw 

 seals at least 300 miles westward of Cape Cook, and got a few of them. 

 This was about the middle of September. 



"I know from my own experience that seals remain off the coasts of 

 Vancouver Island all the year round, as well as oft' Queen Charlotte 

 Islands and Southern Alaska. Captain Ferry, of the ' W. P. Say ward,' 

 in 1891, told me he got about 40 seals 400 miles westward of Queen 

 Charlotte Islands in September 1891." 



