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6. Last year and tliis I was over to Copper Island Grounds hunting. 

 Last year I got 132 seals there, and this year 82. The females num- 

 bered about half the catch each year. None of them were in pup, and 

 not over 20 in milk. I skinned all the seals I got, and remember these 

 things very well. 



7. That so far as my experience goes, I believe the ftir on the seals of 

 the Asiatic side to be slightly thicker and darker than that of the seals 

 on this side, but in other respects the seals on the two sides are exactly 

 alike. 



8. Last year the " Penelope" crossed Behring Sea from 40 miles inside 

 Unimak Pass to the Commander Islands. I saw seals on three different 

 days going over, the last lot just west of the Russian and American 

 demarcation line. 



9. That I shoot sleeping seals at ranges of from 10 to 30 yards, and 

 "travellers" all the way from 40 to 100 yards. Most of the seals I lose 

 are "travellers." 



10. That in every year I have been out I have seen seals in schools 

 or bands all along the coast in number from 200 to 300 to 400 and 500. 

 This was especially so in 1885 and last year. I saw more seals on the 

 coast this year than in any year before. The seals are getting wilder 

 now than when I first went out, and when found in schools they are 

 very hard to get. 



11. That I was taken prisoner this year by the Russian man-of-war 

 "Zabiaka" while out hunting, and came home on the "Rosie Olsen." 

 I saw seals all the way from Petropaulovski to within 500 miles of the 

 American coast-line along the 49th parallel north. This was between 

 the 23rd August and the 10th September. We got to Victoria the 22nd 

 September. 



12. That I have in the five years I have been out found two or three 

 dead seals floating. This was in 1887. One I had shot a little while 

 before myself, and lost him in the fog. The others had been dead some 

 days. Both had been killed by shot. 



13. That when I wound a seal badly I always in fair weather get it; 

 if slightly wounded it will escape and no doubt get well. Seals are not 

 much affected by sbglit wounds. I have got seals with bunches of 

 shot in them that had been there for some years. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Neil Morrison. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Neil Morrison before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 29th day of 

 October, A. d. 1892, 



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



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



83 Declaration of Henry S. Broione. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Henry S. Browne, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of 

 British Columbia, sealer, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. That I was first sealing twelve years ago. I was then on two 

 trips looking for fur-seals, the last one occupying fourteen mouths. 



