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12. If good Charts were made on wliich soiiiidinss were properly laid 

 dowD, the nature of the bottom, «&c., I could, if the depths varied sulii- 

 ciently, tell pretty well where my vessel was. 



13, This year the weather during- the sealing season on the lower 

 coast was very bad. If the weather had then been as good for sealing 

 as it was farther north later in the season, my vessel, as well as all the 

 others, would have got very many more seals on the coast. The seals 

 were there in great numbers, but the weather was too rough to send 

 the boats out. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) W. E. Baker. 



Signed and declared by the said Wentworth E. Baker 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.J (Signed) Arthur L. Belyea, 



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



Declaration of Isaac O^Quinn, 



Dominion op Canada, 



Province of British GoMmbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Isaac O'Quinn, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, Canada, seal-hunter, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been fur-seal hunting two years on the North Pacific 

 Coast and in Behring Sea; on the eastern side about two weeks last 

 year, and on the Copper Island grounds this year over two months. 

 Last year I was on the "Maud S.;" this year on the "Sea Lion." 



2. That last year I got 76 seals on the coast, and lost 9 by sinking. In 

 Behring Sea, eastern side, I got 75 seals, and lost one by sinking. On 

 Copper Island grounds I got 81 seals, and did not lose any by sinking. 

 I don't remember wounding any seal that I did not get last year. 



3. This year I got 210 seals on the coast, and did not lose by sinking 

 any at all. On the Copper Island grounds I got 137 seals, and I lost by 

 sinking 4 seals. Two of these I lost by waiting to get a shot at another 

 close by; the other two sunk before I got up to them. They were 

 "travellers;" one I killed from the vessel; the other at about 60 yards 

 range. I wounded two this year that escaped me. 



4. Last year I did not get over twenty-five females on the coast, and 

 this year not more than forty. The seals I got on the coast both years 

 were scattered seals and mostly young bulls. Last year myself and the 

 other hunters saved all the skins of pups taken from cows we could. 

 When the season was over we had between twenty-five and thirty. 

 These were, I am sure, fully half of all the pups we got from females. 

 Last year now and then we got a female in milk, but none in pup. On 

 Copper Island side last year and this my own catch and that of the 

 other hunters was mostly bulls. Not more than six in a hundred were 

 females. Sometimes for days we would get no females. None of these 

 females were in pup, but most of them in milk. 



5. Last year, in January, 1 saw numerous bands or bunches of seals 

 off Cape Flattery. I was among these bunches five days, and got only 

 five seals; they were so wild 1 could not get near them, Seals in 



