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11. I Lave often seen seals cobabitiiig in the water, and liave killed 

 both the seals when tliey were doing this. It is very easy to get them 

 when they are doing this. 



12. I have seen Indians hunting. They use both guns and spears. 



13. I have killed as many as sixty- two seals in one day without losing 

 any of them. A great many seals are shot in the body when "breach- 

 ing," and hunters are sure to get them when struck this way. Preg- 

 nant females are much more watchful and alert than other seals. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act resi3ecting Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) OscAu Scarf. 



Subscribed and declared before me by the said Oscar Scarf, 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) A. L. Belyea, 



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



68 Declaration of Frederick W. Strong. 



DoMmiON OF Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 

 I, Frederick W. Strong, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of 

 British Columbia, seal-hunter, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. That I am a citizen of the United States. 



2. That I have been seal-hunting in the North Pacific Ocean four 

 years, three of which I was in Behring Sea. In 1888 I was on the 

 United States schooner "Mollie Adams;" in 1889 on the United States 

 schooner "Edward E.Webster;" in 1891 on the British steamer "This- 

 tle;" and in 1892 on the British schooner "Maud S." 



3. In 1888 I got nearly 300 seals, and do not think I lost any. In 

 1889 I got 307 seals. I do not remember losing any that year by sink- 

 ing. In 1891 I got 59 and lost one. The "Thistle" was out that year 

 a little over two months. In 1892 I got 264 seals and lost one. 



4. About two-thirds of the seals I got each year on the coast were 

 females, about one-half of which were with pup. In Behring Sea I got 

 about half females more with pup, but some in milk. 



5. I have been one year, 1892, on the Asiatic side. I got 94 seals 

 there, about one half females; now and then one with pup or in milk. 

 I cannot see any difference between the seals on the two coasts, except 

 that they are not nearly so wild on the Asiatic side as on the American 

 side. 



6. Every year I have been out sealing I have seen seals in schools from 

 as far south as 200 miles below the Columbia River right up north to 

 Sannak Island. This year on a calm day in May, off Cross Sound, I 

 saw bands of seals as far as the eye could reach. Off Kadiak Island, 

 about 100 miles south, in May this year I saw one day sixty or seventy 

 bands of seals, from 50 to 100 in each band. I hunted from 5 o'clock in 

 the morning till 9 at night among them and only got four. They were 

 too wild to get near enough to shoot; seals in bands are always so. 



7. These bands of seals contain both sexes and all ages except old 

 bulls. Sometimes I have got all cows or all bulls from a small band of 

 ten or fifteen, but very seldom. 



