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A, D. Laing. — "As many last year as ever before." 



John Morris. — "About in the same numbers." 



Victor Jacohsen. — "As many this year as last." 



ff. L. Algar: — "Not fewer now than six or eight years ago." 



F. 0. Warrington. — "As plentiful, or more so, than ever before.'^ 

 J. D. Warren. — " No decrease in numbers of seals off the coast." 

 William Hermann. — " I do not notice a material difference in the 



number met with since the time I began hunting until now." 



William Brown. — " During my fourteen years' residence on those 

 islands [Aleutian] and mainland of Alaska I have not noticed that the 

 seals have diminished in numbers." 



George Scott. — "I do not see any difference in the number of seals now 

 and when I began sealing." 



Oeorge Wester. — "Seals are just as plentiful now as they were the 

 first year I went hunting, .... and I have seen as many, if not 

 more, this y^ar [18*J2] as in any previous year." 



Charles Lutjens. — "I cannot say that I notice any difference in the 

 number of seals now and when I first began sealing." 



Charles Hartiwen. — "I believe the seals are just as numerous as ever." 



Milton Scott. — " I think that I saw last year more seals than I ever 



saw since I hunted first, and I do not think their number is diminishing." 



J. S. Worth. — "I do not think there is any difference now in the num- 

 ber of seals I see than when I first began hunting." 



Michael Keefe. — "This year I saw just as many seals on the coast as 

 in any of the first three years I was out sealing." 



W. 0. Shafter. — " The seals seem to be as thick now as ever they have 

 been." 



C. E. Modeler. — "Seals are just as plentiful this year as in any year 

 in my experience, and I do not think they are decreasing." 



J. W. Crew. — "I saw as many seals this year as I have ever seen, 

 and I cannot notice that they are decreasing." 



H. F. Sieward. — "Seals are as plentiful this year as I have ever seen 

 them." 



C. F. Dillon. — "I don't think seals are getting any scarcer, at least at 

 sea." 



G. C. Gerow. — " They were as plentiful as ever last year [1891]." 



FranTc Moreau. — "I do not notice that seals are decreasing." 



James Carthcut. — "Always sealed along the coast and in Behring 

 Sea, and notice no difterence in the number of seals from the first to 

 the last year." 



32 Hit-hitte. — "There are just as many seals along the coast now 



as when I first began to hunt, but they are found further off* 

 shore." 



Kasado. — Does not think seals are less plentiful, but they have been 

 frightened away from the shore. 



Clahapisum. — " There are as many seals as formerly, but they are 

 more frightened and hard to kill." 



Hanaisum and Clahouto think the same as Clahapisum. 



Walter Watt. — " I believe that the seals are just as plentiful as years 

 ago." 



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