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that sank when I had seen the shot strike beyond it and the seal dive. 

 You can always tell by the blood in the water whether you liave really 

 wounded a seal. 



2, I shoot at a seal from 6 to 55 yards from it. 

 71 3. We every year see seals in schools. I saw as many as 150 



this year together. They are very wild and hard to get at when 

 they are in schools. 



4. Both years when going to the Copper Islands I saw seals all the 

 way across along the Aleutian Islands, and this year I saw seals in mid- 

 ocean on the course home. I have seen them every year this way. 



5. We started late this year, but when we got to the sealing grounds 

 we found the seals as plentiful as I ever saw them before, and all the 

 schooners we saw said the seals were more plentiful than ever before. 



6. This year the sexes were about equally divided, but last year and 

 the year I was on tlie " Walter L. Rich" they were nearly all bulls. On 

 the Copper Island grounds I found the seals about equally divided, too, 

 as regards sex. 



7. 1 have noticed that male seals have teats; they are about the same 

 size as on a young female. 



8. 1 have seen a male and female together in the kelp often, as I 

 thought cohabiting, but I am not sure of it. I have killed both; if the 

 female is killed first, the male will stay about, and is easily shot. 



9. All seals are wilder now on the coast than they were formerly, and 

 the cows in pup are wilder than the others. 



10. If the seals are well protected on the islands, there is no danger 

 of their dying out, for we don't get more than one out of fifty we see — 

 they are so wild. 



11. I have noticed that in clear, calm weather seals are wilder than 

 at other times, and are wilder where there are many schooners about 

 than when there are a few. 



12. If a seal smells a boat to windward there is little chance of get- 

 ting him — not one chance in ten. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Charles A. Williams. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Charles A. Williams before me, 

 a !N"otary Public duly commissioned, a.nd residing and practising at the 

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

 October, A. d. 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) Arthur L. Belyea, 



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



Declaration of Colin Loclce. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Colin Locke, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, seal-hunter, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been engaged in sailing-vessels for fifteen years, and 

 was engaged in seal hunting during the season of 1892. 



2. That although I reside at the said city of Victoria at the present 

 time, I owe my allegiance to the United States of America. 



