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one band of seals this year with about fifteen in it. I could not get 

 near enough to see whether they were all of one size. The seals I got 

 this year were mostly females. 



On the way home last year I saw a few seals in mid-ocean in Sep- 

 tember. Seals on the coast were more difficult to get at this year than 

 last year, but they were no wilder on the Eussian side. Seals are 

 harder to get when several are together than when one is alone; when 

 together one is generally awake. I saw fewer seals this year than last 

 year. 



(Signed) William Cowie. 



Unalasea, September 13j 1892. 



Declaration of Frank Gamphell. 



T, Frank Campbell, of the village of Esquimault, now a hunter on 

 the sealing-schooner "Oscar and Hattie," declare that I have been 

 sealing five years — three years as a boat-puller and steerer, and two 

 years as a hunter. This year I have killed 65 seals, 64 of which I got — 

 one sank. Not more than 30 were wounded; not more than ha if of 

 these were badly enough wounded to die. Seals will float on an 

 average from five to ten minutes, sometimes much longer, and some- 

 times a shorter time. 



I shoot at a sleeping seal when 10 to 15 yards from it, and at a 

 "traveller" never when more than 50 to 60 yards from it. We were 

 late starting out, and did not find the seals very abundant anywhere. 



Three years ago I found the seals travelling in schools along the 

 coast, but not this year nor last year. 



Yearlings travel together sometimes behind the others, but the other 

 seals are as a rule mixed together. I find that seals eat every kind of 

 fish and squid. 



I got this year more females than males — more females this year than 

 last year. Among the seals I got this year were 20 or 25 barren females. 



We went west this season in July, but saw no seals until we were 

 near the Eussian islands. On the way back we saw 3 or 4 seals about 

 100 miles west of this. I found the seals scarcer this year than last, but 

 no harder to get at. It is much easier to get a single seal than it is to 

 get one when there are several together. 



Last year, when off Mount St. Elias, about 15th June, I saw two seals 

 cohabiting. 



(Signed) F. Campbell. 



Unalaska, September 14, 1892. 



Declaration of Joseph Brown. 



I, Joseph Brown, of the city of Victoria, now a hunter on the sealing 

 schooner " Oscar and Hattie," declare that I have been sealing six 

 years, but only this year as a hunter. 



I have killed this year 91 seals, one of which sank: the others I got. 

 I wounded 20 or 25 that got away; of these not more than half-a-dozen 

 would die, I think. Seals float various lengths of time; I have often 

 killed one when two were together, and then followed and killed another 

 before picking up the first. At sleeping seal I shoot when 15 or 20 



