638 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



13. I have seen Indians hunting; they use guns and spears. They 

 use guns now more than formerly, for the seals are getting wilder, and 

 they cannot get at them with a spear. 



14. I do not think there is any difference bet"\yeen the seals on this 

 side of Behring Sea and on the other side, unless it is that on the Eus- 

 sian side the seals are lighter in colour. 



15. I have got seals with rock in their mouths, which they must have 

 got from the bottom. 



73 IG. Seals change their feeding-grounds, and where a good many 



are got one year, few will be seen the next. 

 And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Emil Eamlose. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Emil Eamlose before me, a Notary 

 Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the city of 

 Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 24th day of October, 

 a. d. 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) Arthur L. Bel yea, 



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



Declaration of Ernest Lorenz. 



Dominion oe Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Vicforiaj 



I, Ernest Lorenz, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, master mariner, a subject of the Empire of Germany, do 

 solemnly declare as follows: 



1. That I have been sealing three years — two years as master and 

 one year as mate. 



2. In 1890 I was mate of the " Juanita," in 1891 master of the same 

 vessel (then called the "Mascotte"), and in 1892 master of the "Teresa." 



3. I did no sealing myself, except now and then to go out with the 

 ■hunters, when I shot a few. 



4. This year I think there were more seals on the coast — that is, 

 between the mouth of the Columbia Eiver and Unimak Pass — than in 

 the two previous years. This year I saw thousands of seals off Prince 

 of Wales Island, just north of Dixon Entrance, and also just off where 

 Pamplona Eock is supposed to be. 



5. In 1890 and 1891 I was in Behring Sea. In one day in 1890, when 

 in latitude 55° 6' north and 169° 1' west — the exact day, I see by my 

 book was the 11th August — my hunters (Indians) got 130 seals, of which 

 about 100 were males — small bulls. The following year I think I took 

 more females than males in Behring Sea, though I did not keep a count. 



6. In all years I have seen on every part of the coast seals in bunches 

 or schools. Generally they are hard to get at when found this way, 

 because some of the school are always awake. Many times I have seen 

 them in a bunch, but one of the three was always awake and watching, 

 the larger the number in the bunch the more awake and watching. 

 Yearlings and 2-year-olds travel mostly by themselves, older males and. 

 females together. 



7. Last year I saw seals in Barclay Sound. The seals go where food 

 is to be found, and in different numbers in different years; last year a 



