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2. I worked principally among the Auckland Islands; nearly all tlie 

 seals were taken ashore, but some were killed in the water. 



3. An attempt was made to protect them on the land, and it was 

 supposed that no seals were taken during the six months of the year 

 that the seals go ashore, but the vessel that was to protect them scarcely 

 ever went there. 



4. I was once fourteen months in the vicinity of the islands, and 

 lived six months ashore. The rookeries are quite different there from 

 those in Behring Sea. The seals haul out on rocks and under cliffs 

 and on beaches. 



5. We secured about 1,300 seals while we were there. 



6. Other vessels were there, but they did not secure such good 

 catches, as they were not as familiar with the place as we were. 



7. We hunted on the Campbell Islands, and secured several hundred 

 seals. 



8. We secured about nineteen seals on the Bounty Islands, a group 

 of small rocks. 



9. I have been through the Straits of Magellan, and saw plenty of 

 seals there, but did not hunt them. 



10. At the Auckland Islands most of the seals are secured by lower- 

 ing the men down over cliffs with ropes, sometimes 900 feet down. 



11. I have been engaged for five years on the Pacific Coast and 

 Behring Sea as a boat- puller, but never did any hunting. 



12. This season I saw more seals than I ever saw on any previous 

 year, and I have heard our hunters make the same statement. 



13. We secured many more males than females during the present 

 season, and there have been more males than females this year, but 

 there were more in proportion this year than any other. 



33. Very few seals are lost by the hunter killing them and not secur- 

 ing them. 



14. I went to the Copper Island side this year on the "W. P. Say- 

 ward," and saw seals all the way across, and also on the way home 

 again. 



15. On the way home from Copper Island we sailed through great 

 numbers of seals when about 700 miles from Petropaulovsky, and about 

 300 miles south of the Aleutian Islands, but having no arms at that 

 time, we did not secure any of them. 



16. When on the Auckland Islands I have watched more than one 

 pup suck from the same cow as she lay asleep, and heard there that 

 when a mother dies another female would suckle it (the puji). 



17. From my knowledge of seals, both on land and in the water, I 

 know that there is no danger of their all being killed off". 



18. I saw little pups about the middle of August at Copper Island 

 eating small squid and other things along the beach, and never saw the 

 mothers going near the little bunches of seals that were hunting for 

 food for themselves along the shore. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) H. S. Browne. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Henry S. Browne, 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. Bblyea, 



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



