APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 637 



Declaration ofEmil Bamlose. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia^ City of Victoria, 



i, Emil Ramlose, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Cohirabia, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. I have been seven seasons sealing — one year as boat-puller, one 

 year as boatsteerer, aud five years as a hunter. 



2. In 1888 I was on the "Annie C. Moore" as hunter, and got 130 

 seals, and kept no count of the seals lost by sinking. I was on the 

 same vessel the next year, and took 366 skins, and lost not more than 

 twenty by sinking, but did not keep count of them. In 1890 I was on 

 the " Triumph," and got 207 skins. Last year I was on tbe "May Belle," 

 and got 246 skins, losing about 12 by sinking. I did not keep count in 

 1890. This year I did count them that were killed and sank before I 

 could get them. I was on the " Walter A. Earle," and secured 415 skins, 

 and lost 7 only; 2 of these were shot from the vessel, and I could not 

 get tbe boat lowered in time to get them. 



3. Very few escape badly wounded, as when wounded we chase them 

 hard, and if they are at all badly hurt are sure of getting them. 



4. I have found seals in schools all the way from Cape Flattery and 

 below it north to the Fairweatber Grounds. Seals in schools are very 

 difficult to get at, even when there are as few as three together, for one 

 or more is always awake, and gives warning to the others. 



5. Males and females travel together. This applies to all ages and 

 sizes, but I have never seen as many yearlings with them as I expected. 

 I don't know where the yearlings go. 



6. Before this year I killed more females than males, but this year 

 took more males in proportion than ever before. I am speaking now of 

 the coast. In Behring Sea I used to get more cows than bulls. 



7. This year I went over to the Russian side, and on the way home 

 our vessel went in to Adkah Island to water. Seals were seen between 

 Kanaga Island and that island. We were about 10 miles from land 

 then. 



8. Other years I have seen seals — large seals — in July outside of the 

 172nd Pass, and in August between Unimak Pass and the Sannak ( ?) 

 Islands. 



9. Both along the coast and in Behring Sea I have seen barren cows, 

 good full-grown cows, such' as those we took with milk in their breasts. 



10. I saw more seals this year than ever before on the coast. The 

 most I ever got before on the coast was between 150 and 160, and this 

 year on the coast I got 325 seals. 



11. I have seen seals cohabiting in the water, or attempting to do so. 

 Once I saw two seals in the water, one Jying very quiet, as if dead, 

 while the other was smelling around her. I kept getting nearer and 

 nearer to them, and the larger seal, which was a good fair-sized bull, 

 although he would look at me, made no attempt to go away, but kept 

 fooling about the cow. I was afraid he would dive and get away, so 

 Avhen about 30 yards from him I fired. He was struck and breached, 

 and I saw quite i)lainly his penis sticking out. I would have killed 

 him, but he was such a large seal that the shot at that distance did not 

 have much effect. The other seal, which was a cow, no doubt, then 

 dived and got away. The boatsteerer saw this too. 



12. I was boat-puller on the "Teresa" in 1886, and one day saw a 

 hunter bring on board a bull with his penis out. He said he was with 

 a cow when he shot him, and that the shot had killed him instantly. 



