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4. That every year I have been out I have seen schools of seals on 

 the coast from off Cape Blanco northward. It is poor hunting when 

 the seals are in schools — most of them are awake, and those asleep are 

 soon awakened when a boat comes around, and t' e whole school gets 

 away. 



5. This year I got more females than males on the coast, and on the 

 Asiatic side about equal numbers of each. More than half of the 

 females I got on the coast were with young. On the Asiatic side from 

 one-quarter to one-half the females I got were in milk. I got a good 

 many barren cows this year both on the coast and on the Asiatic side. 



6. I know of no schooners being in Behring Sea on the eastern side 

 this year, except those reported seized. 



7. That the "Annie E. Paint" left the sealing grounds off the Com- 

 mander Islands about the 21st September, and arrived at Victoria on 

 the 15th October instant. I saw seals every day of the voyage over. 

 We sailed about 100 miles south of the nearest land on the Aleutian 

 Islands. 



8. That I have never noticed or detected any difference in the seals 

 on the two sides of the North Pacific or Behring Sea. I believe them 

 to be identical. 



9. That I saw more seals this year on the coast, both in bands and 

 scattered, than in any former year I was out. 



10. That on three or four different occasions I saw seals cohabiting 

 in the water. The male was on top of the female, and hunters I was 

 with have killed them in the act, getting both male and female once, 

 and the males at other times. 



11. That I saw seals this year in greatest numbers off' the Pamplona 

 Rocks, and in much larger numbers there than in any former year. 



52 And I make this solemn declaration, conscientionsly believing 



the same to be true, and by virtue of " The Act respecting Extra- 

 judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) Chas. Le Blanc. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Charles Le Blanc before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 20th day of 

 October, A. d. 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) Arthur L. Bbltea, 



A Notary Fublie in and for the Province of British Columbia, 



Declaration of Captain Abel Douglas, 



Dominion op Canada, 



Province of British Columbia^ City of Victoria^ 



I, Captain Abel Douglas, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of 

 British Columbia, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. Tliat I have for the past eight years been engaged in the sealing 

 business, three years as a hunter, and five years as captain and hunter, 

 for I make a point of going out in a boat myself so that I may see that 

 the seals are as represented by the men. I have always been counted 

 a good shot, and that is tlie way I came to go seal hunting. 



2. I was captain of the '' Triumph " for three years, and was on the 

 " May Belle" as master, and this year was master of the " Arictis." 



3. Five years ago in Behring Sea I took more than IGO skins, and did 



