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ing seals a good many times, and have had a seal as far as 200 yards to 

 leeward of me scent me, and have seen it make at once towards the 

 sleeping seals, and would jump right on top of them and wake them. 

 Only twice in five seasons have I seen two sleeping seals near one 

 another, and when one would wake, see him go away without w^aking 

 the other. Twice only have I seen thisj one seal would wake the other 



always. 

 55 10. Five seasons ago I saw more seals between Flattery and 



Cape Cook than I ever saw since on the coast. That year there 

 was plenty of bait on the coast, and consequently food for the seal. It 

 was a small fish they were feeding on. Since then there has not been 

 such a quantity of bait, and I think the seals were there feeding. 



11. This year I did not catch anything off Queen Charlotte Islands; 

 but off Mount Edgecumbe, and from that on to Cross Sound I found 

 nothing in the seals' stomachs, showing that they were travelling seals. 

 On the Fairweather Grounds the stomachs were full of salmon, squid, 

 and a small black fish of which I don't know the name. 



12. I saw more seals this year than I did any time since the first 

 year I was out. 



13. I think the seals should be protected. There ought not to be any 

 seals killed on the islands at all. They should be perfectly protected 

 there until the young ones can get along by themselves, which is about 

 the 15th August — I have been told by a United States Treasury Agent 

 on the islands; but I think, too, that they should be protected at sea, 

 and that none should be killed until the 15th August; then let us go 

 into the sea and stay there as long as we like. 



14. Coming home from Behring Sea this year I saw four sleeping 

 seals oft" Cape Flattery, the 21st July; one was shot. It was a barren 

 female, and in good health, for I carefully examined it. 



15. I have gone into Behring Sea through the 172nd Pass, but saw no 

 seals there. 



16. I have not noticed that males have teats. 



17. I have carefully read the above statements, and swear that they 

 are all true, and that there is nothing further I wished to have inserted 

 in this declaration, but that I told Captain Lavender of the "Corwin" 

 that more seals were lost that were killed with a rifle than with a shot- 

 gun. I would qualify this by saying that seals one is close to are as 

 certain to be got when shot with a rifle as with a shot-gun, but with a 

 rifle they are shot at farther off, and so some may be lost. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) E. O. Lavender. 



Subscribed and declared by the said E. O. Lavender 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, Belyea, 



A Notary Public in and for the Province of British Columbia. 



