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large number of seals were taken at Barclay Sound, this year I went 

 there for seals but got very few. 



8. I was on the Asiatic side this year; the seals do not seem so wild 

 on that side as on the American. When I first went over the seals 

 were very tame — came right around the schooner and boats, but got 

 wilder later on. 



9. On the way over I saw seals from 80 to 100 miles south of the 

 Aleutian Islands, and about the 180th meridian; also off the 172ud 

 Pass. I don't know whether they were going to the Pribylofit'or Com- 

 mander Islands. 



10. In 1890, on the way home, I saw seals at least 300 miles west- 

 ward of Cape Cook, and got a few of them. This was about the 

 middle of September. 



11. I don't see any difference between seals on the American and 

 Asiatic side, and don't think anybody can; they seem alike in all 

 respects. 



12. In my experience seals are not decreasing on the coast or in 

 Behring Sea, so far as I know. 



13. I have not noticed that males have teats, excepting " wig's." 

 Male and female skins of the same size cannot be distinguished one 

 from the other. 



I have never seen seals cohabiting, but have heard others say they 

 have seen them doing so in the water. 



14. I have had Indian hunters; they used both spears and guns; as 

 they get used to guns they prefer them. When Indian hunters approach 

 two seals close together, they generally attempt to get both — one by 

 spearing, the other by shooting. 



15. Last year I got female seals in milk off Queen Charlotte Islands 

 in July. That makes me think there is a rookery there. This year I 

 saw old bulls (" wigs") oft' Coronation Island, and there may be a rook- 

 ery there. 



16. I know from my own experience that seals remain off the coasts of 

 Vancouver Island all the year round, as well as off" Queen Charlotte 

 Islands and Southern Alaska. Captain Ferry, of the '• W. P. Say ward," 

 in 1891 told me he got about forty seals 400 miles westward of Queen 

 Charlotte Islands in September 1891. 



17. I have nothing else to say except that I think the killing of seals 

 on the islands is more destructive than the killing on the coast. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act resi^ecting Extrajudicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Ernest Lorenz. 



74 Subscribed and declared by the said Ernest Lorenz before me, 



a Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and i)ractising 

 at the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 24tli 

 day of October, A. D. 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) Arthur L. Bklyea, 



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



