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16. Since I have been lmntin.2: 1 have not killed more than 8 or 10 old 

 bulls. They are so large that tbey must often be skinned iti the water, 

 and they take so much time, and are worth so little, that we seldom 

 bother with them. 



17. Since I have been sealing I have seen two seals floating dead on 

 the water; seals float a long time when they come to the surface this 

 way. I have seen one that had been in the water so long that the hair 

 and fur pulled out. 



18. Seals taken in July and August in Behring Sea bring a better 

 price than the spring catch, and the fur, I believe, is better. 



19. I have not heard of any schooners sealing in Behring Sea on the 

 American side this year but those that were seized, and I do not believe 

 that there were any other vessels there. 



And I make this solemii declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Thos. H. Brown. 



82 Subscribed and declared by the said Thomas H. Brown before 



me, a Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and prac- 

 tising at the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 

 20th day of October, A. D. 1892. 

 [SEAL.J (Signed) Arthur L. Beltea, 



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



Declaration of Neil Morrison. 



DoMmioN OF Canada, 



Province of British Columbia^ City of Victoria, 



I, I^Teil Morrison, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

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



1. That I have been five years in sealing- vessels on the North Pacific 

 Coast and Behring Sea — one year boat-steerer, and four years hunter. 

 In 1885 I was on the schooner "Mary Ellen" until May, then went on 

 the "Favourite" into Behring Sea. In 1886 I was on the "Thornton." 

 In 1887 I was on the " Mary Taylor." I was not out in either of the 

 years 1888, 1889, or 1890. In 1891 I was on the "Penelope," and this 

 year on the "W. P. Say ward." 



2. That I am unable to give definitely my catches for the first two 

 years I was hunting, but as nearly as I recollect in 1886 I got about 300 

 in Behring Sea up to the beginning of August when the "Thornton" 

 was seized. In 1887 I got about 420 up to about the same date as the 

 year before. All these for both years were taken in Behring Sea. 



3. In 1886 my catch was about two-thirds bulls; no cows in pup; 

 some in milk and some barren cows, in 1887 I think something over 

 half I got were cows; none in pup — some, I think about one-quarter — 

 in milk, and the remainder barren cows and young females. 



4. In 1891 1 got 119 on the coast, and lost by sinking 6. About half, 

 not more, of these were females. Of the females not over 30 were in 

 pup. I remember th.is because we got among a lot of females off Iphi- 

 genia Bay in May, and got there in two or three days nearly all the 

 females we got on the coast tliat year. 



5. In 1892 I got 202 seals on the coast, and lost by sinking 10 at the 

 most. Out of the 202, about 65 or one-third were females. The females 

 were about half in pup and half barren and young females. 



