576 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



W. 0. Hughes. — "Nowhere, except in Behring Sea last year, have I 

 seeu so many seals as this year [1892] along the coast." 



Joseph Brown. — " I saw more seals in 1891 than in any previous year." 



Lulce McGrath. — "I saw more seals this year on the i)art of the coast 

 I was on than on the same coast last year." 



James Siteman. — "I saw more seals in 1891 than in any other year 

 I have been out." 



0. 0. Burns. — "I saw more seals this year than last." 



John Goburn. — '< There are just as many seals on the coast now as 



there was when I first went outj in fact, this year I saw more seals on 



the coast than ever before." 



George Wells. — "I saw more seals on the coast this year than either 

 of the previous two years." 



Lee J. Thiers. — " From my own observation, and from what other 

 sealers tell me, there were more seals seen this year than ever before.' 



W. Gonners. — " I have seen more seals this year than in any ypar 



before since I have hunted Certainly their number is not 



growing less." 



P. D. Peterson. — " Seals were more plentiful, I think, this year than 

 in 1891; they are not decreasing." 



James Ford. — " I saw more seals this year than I did last." 

 William F. Roland. — '•'■ I saw a great many more seals this year than 

 ever before all along the coast." 



A. W. Roland. — " I saw more seals on the coast this year than in any 

 other year I have been out." 



Andrew McKeil. — " I saw more seals on the coast this year than last." 



William Edwards. — "There seems to be more seals tbis year than 

 last." 



Thomas G'Leary. — " Seals are more plentiful this year than last." 



Lulie McGrath. — "I saw more seals this year than last." 



Peter Garlson. — " I do not think seals any less numerous this year 

 than when I first went sealing, as I have seeu more seals this year than 

 ever before." 



Dan A. Lewis. — " There are more seals now than when I first went 

 hunting. I notice it wherever I go." 



Abel Douglas. — "The past two years I have seen as many seals as I 

 ever saw." 



W. T. Bragg. — "As plentiful this year as any previous year." 



James Shields. — " Saw this year as many seals as ever before." 



Andrew Mathison. — "No decrease in six years." 



31 G.A. Williams. — " Seals as plentiful as ever saw them before." 



Golin LocJce. — "As many this year as in previous years." 



F. Lorenz, — " Seals are not decreasing." 



Theodor Magnesen. — "As many as other years." 



W.E. Baher. — "Quite as many as ever before." 



Robert E. McKiel. — "As many this year as ever before." 



George McDonald. — " Quite as, if not more, numerous than ever 

 before." 



Joseph Sail, — " Just as many this year as last." 



