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7. I saw more seals this year than ever before all along the coast, 

 especially off Cape Flattery, Fairweather Grounds, and Middleton 

 Island. 



8. Seals are wilder now than when I first went hunting, particularly 

 so on the coast. 



9. I have been over to the Copper Island grounds twice, in 1891 and 

 1892. In 1891 the '"Viva" crossed Behring Sea from about 20 miles 

 north of Amutka Pass to the Copiier Island grounds. I saw seals 

 scattered all the way over. This year the "Sea Lion" went over 

 outside the Aleutian Islands. I saw seals in about the same way all 

 the way over. 



10. I have seen seals all over the North Pacific Ocean in the fall and 

 early winter months. 



11. I once saw a male and female seal having connection in the 

 water. I killed both of them, first the cow and then the buU, and got 

 both in the boat. 



And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Wm. De Witt. 



Subscribed and declared by the said William De Witt before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 21st day of 

 October, a. d. 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) A. L. Bel yea, 



A Notary Fublic in and for the Province of British GolumMa. 



63 Declaration of William G. Goudie. 



Canada, Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, William Goudie, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, seal-hunter, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have hunted fur-seals in the North Pacific and Behring Sea 

 five years. I went out first in 1888 on the "Mollie Adams" from 

 Seattle, sealing on the coast, and on the "Edward Webster" to Beh- 

 ring Sea. In 1889 I was on the " Mollie Adams," in 1890 on the "Sap- 

 phire," in 1891 on the " Carlotta G. Cox," and in 1892 on her again. 



2. I kept a record of my catch of seals every year. Last year and 

 this year I kept count of the seals I sunk, but not in the other years, 

 though I remember the number well. 



3. In 1888 I got 75 on the "Mollie Adams," and on the "Webster," 

 in Behring Sea, 118. Out of the whole lot I lost by sinking 7. In 

 1889 I got 250 seals, and lost by sinking 3. In 1891 I got 387 seals, 

 and sunk 5. In 1892 I got 442 seals, and sunk 2. 



4. This year the majority of the seals we got on the coast were bulls; 

 out of 2,040 seals caught on the coast, about 1,500 were bulls from 2 to 

 4 years old. On the Eussian side of the Behring Sea we got 689. I 

 got 136 of these. A little more than half were females— none in pup, 

 a very few in milk. About half the females I got on the coast were 

 with pup, the other half barren cows and young females. 



5. Every year I have been out I have seen the seals in bands or 

 schools on the coast as far south as 70 miles south of Cape Flattery and 

 all along up the coast. I have never been as far south as the Columbia 

 Eiver sealing. 



