658 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



12. That in all my experience I have known of only two "floaters," 

 that is, seals dead on the water. I don't know the cause of death in 

 either case. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believinj? the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) James W. Todd. 



Subscribed and declared by the said James W. Todd before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 28th day of 

 October, a. d. 1892. 



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



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



86 Affidavit of William A. Farley. 



I, William A. Farley, of the city of Victoria, make oath and say: 



That I have been out three years as a seal-hunter; in 1890 on the 

 "Ocean Belle;" in 1891 on the "Oarlotta G-. Cox;" and this year in the 

 " Mascotte." 



I shoot at a seal when 15 or 20 yards from it. I was mate as well as 

 hunter this year, and went out in the stern-boat. I lost no seals, but 

 only killed 29. I got all of them. I do not examine seals carefully, 

 but think that in Behring Sea more females are got than along the coast. 



(Signed) William A. Farley. 



Victoria, Se^tejnber 30, 1892. 



Declaration of Melville F. Gullen. 



I, Melville F. Cullen, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, solemnly declare: 



That I have been two years seal hunting — last year on the " Carmo- 

 lite" and this year on the "Agnes Macdonald." I was out both years 

 as master. I went north too late this year to be able to form an esti- 

 mate as to whether there were more or fewer seals this year. I found 

 seals 175 miles west of Pribyloff Islands last year; that was |is far as I 

 went. I went to the Kussian side this year. Coming back we saw seals 

 in the North Pacific 300 or 400 miles from the Aleutian Islands in 

 September. 



Last year my vessel secured 2,400 seals, and I never heard the 

 hunters speak of losing many. 



(Signed) Melville F. Cullen. 



Victoria, Sepember 29, 1892. 



