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6. We find the seals in schools now much more than we formerly did, 

 and they are much wilder and harder to get now. I account for this 

 by the fact that they are hunted more. 



7. I think I have seen more seals every year than I saw the year 

 before — very many more this year than the first year I was out. 



8. At that time the seals were tame and curious, and nearly every 

 one a hunter saw he got, but it is very different now; they know enough 

 to keep well out of gun-shot. 



9. We get more females than males, both on the coast and in Behring 

 Sea; there were more males in proportion to the females this year than 

 other years, I think ; we get more bulls with the cows the farther north 

 we go. Last year and this year I found moie males in proportion to 

 the females on the Eussian side than I had found on the American side 

 of the Pacific. 



10. I had Indians with me in 1888 and 1889 ; they would spear prin 

 cipally, but now Indians use guns a great deal. 



11. I could always tell pretty well how far I was from the Pribyloff 

 Islands in the most foggy weather, and if good soundings that could 

 be depended upon were marked on the Charts, and the nature of the 

 bottom shown, I would have no difficulty in telling where I was. 



12. I have noticed no difference in the seals on the Asiatic and on the 

 American side of Behring Sea, unless it is that the seals are darker on 

 the other side. I certainly could not tell them apart in the water. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Egbt. E. McKiel. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Eobert E. McKeil 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) Arthue L. Belyea, 



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



77 • Declaration of Charles Campbell. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Charles Campbell, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. I have been out on sealing voyages two years as master of the 

 schooner "Umbrina." I was out on that vessel last year and this year. 



2. I occasionally go out in a boat myself, as a good sealing captain 

 ought to do; and, besides, a hunter is sometimes sick, and we cannot 

 afford to have a boat idle, 



^. I am no hunter, but this year I killed fifteen seals, and lost one 

 only. 



4. 1 went over to the Asiatic side of Behring Sea both last year and 

 this year; last year through Behring Sea, this year outside. 



5. Last year we saw seals on the way across whenever the weather 

 was fine; there was no way of telling when we saw the last of the seals 

 that frequent the Pribyloff' Islands and met the first of those that were 

 going to the Commander Islands, 



