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6. T have had only two years' experience, Imt saw this year more seals 

 than last year, and. all my hunters said that they had never seen so 

 many seals before. 



7. The principal part of my catch was young- males; there were more 

 of them than of females. 



8. I know from my own experience that cows are more on the alert 

 than males, and can tell at once the sex in this way, and my hunters 

 have told me the same thing. 



9. My hunters have told me that seals are much harder to get now 

 than formerly, and 1 know from my own exi)erience that they were more 

 difficult to approach this year than last year. 



10. Seals are harder to get, too, when they are travelling in bunches; 

 and I have heard old hunters say that it Is no use trying to get seals 

 when there are many together. 



11. Besides the vessels that were seized, I have not heard of any 

 vessels sealing on the American side of Behring Sea, and am sure if 

 there had been schooners there I would have heard of it. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Charles Campbell. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Charles Campbell before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 25th day of 

 October, A. D. 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) Arthur L. Belyea, 



A Notary Puhlic in and for the Province of British Columhia, 



Declaration of George McDonald. 



DOMINTON: OF CANADA, 



Province of British Columhia, City of Victoria., 



1, George McDonald, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, master mariner, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been out sealing six years — one year as mate and five 

 as sailing-master. 1 was sailing-master of the "Kate" in 1887, the 

 "Pathfinder" in 1888, the "Alfred Adams" in 1889, 1890, and 1891. The 

 name of the latter vessel was changed to "Lily" in 1890, and she was 

 wrecked in 1891. 



In 1891, after the wreck of the "Lily," I was mate of the "Katherine," 

 formerly called the "Black Diamond." This year (1892) I was sailing- 

 master of the "Aurora." 



2. The seals are quite as, if not more, numerous now as in former 

 years, but I think they start north earlier. 



3. On the coast, as a rule, more females are caught than males. In 

 Behring Sea about equal numbers of the sexes are taken. 



4. One year — in the month of August, on the "Lily" — I got seals 200 

 miles south of the Shumigan Islands, and I have found seals as far west 

 as the 172nd Pass, in the month of September, when homeward bound. 



5. That I saw seals cohabiting in the water once. The hunter with 

 me at the time shot both seals. They seemed to embrace one another 

 very firmly with their fins, or flippers. Hunters tell me it is easy to 

 get seals when they are doing this. 



