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returaed about 1.15 on the morning of the 17th, and. three boats with 

 ten men were sent ashore. The schooner steamed in after them until 

 so close that the rocks on the bottom could be seen. The men remained 

 ashore until nearly 7 o'clock ; it was then daylight. Frequent attempts 

 were made to get the seals on board, but the swell was so heavy tliat 

 only thirty-seven were secured, though a great many more were killed. 

 He further says: "I could see the guard-house plainly, but no one 

 appeared, though a tremendous noise was made. The men were con- 

 tinually calling out and shouting; all the vessel's lights were lit during 

 the whole time; no lights were taken ashore, as the night was clear, 

 the moon shining during the early part of the evening." The vessel 

 was then taken round to the other side of the island, and lay at anchor 

 there until 3 o'clock the next day, when two men were seen on a hill- 

 top, and the schooner steamed away. 



Captain E. P. Miner says : " I have frequently heard of raids being 

 made on the Pribyloff Islands. In 1881 and 1882 two schooners an- 

 chored to the northward of St. Paul Island for nearly the whole summer. 

 They were the 'Otter' and 'Alexander,' vessels owned by Liebes and 

 Co., of San Francisco. The captains of these vessels told me of this 

 themselves. In 1890, in September, the '0. H. White' made a raid on 

 the islands, and from what I was told by the men on board of her noth- 

 ing was known on the island of this raid. The 'Edward Webster ' raided 

 St. George Island in 1889. The captain told me of this himself, and it 

 is well known in San Francisco." 



A. G. Folger says: "It is a very simple matter to make a raid if it is 

 gone about properly. All you have to do is to go quietly to the seals 

 and drive a few of them to one side, and then go back for more when 

 they are killed." He further says: "I more than once made raids on 

 the Pribyloff Islands when I sailed from San Francisco, and know of 

 other vessels having done so. We understood just how to work, and 

 there was no chance of its being known that we had been there. We 

 would go ashore and quietly drive the seals down to the edge of the 

 water, as near the water as possible, so that the tide or waves would 

 wash the blood away. We would have the boats right at the spot, and 

 would take the seals on board as fast as they were killed; we never 

 left anything that would show we had been there, picking up the slight- 

 est bit of stick. Two of us, two schooners, lay at anchor 35 miles off St. 

 Paul; we were there six weeks; when it got dark we would run in to 

 Northeast Point; we were anchored on the east side. We chose that 

 place because when there was surf on one side of the point there might 

 not be on the other, while the other rookeries could only be approached 

 from one side. We never stayed ashore each time over two or three 

 hours, as we wanted to get out of sight of the island as soon as pos- 

 sible. The people on the island never knew we went there, and don't 

 know to this day. We anchored there once from the middle of June 

 until the cutter left in September, going in whenever the weather suited. 

 We once ran in too near the village, and saw a cutter there and went 

 away again, but we found the coast clear the next night and got about 

 500 skins. We could see the light at the village. We knew very well 

 the natives did not keep a good watch. We got about 2,000 skins that 

 year off" the island." 



42 John Kraft says: "I was last year on the 'Borealis,' and we 



were over on the Copper Island side, and landed there in Novem- 

 ber — at least we tried to land, but the weather was too bad. We then 

 came over to the Pribyloff Islands, and tried to land on St. George, but 

 did not succeed. We then went to the south-west side of St. Paul 



