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All senls on tbe coast are not nearly so tame as they used to be, but 

 til ere are more of them. 



New-born pups swim if thrown into the water. I remember one that 

 I took from a row and threw overboard tliat swum after our boat for 

 over an hour. It, however, made so much noise that I caught it again 

 and killed it, as it interfered with our hunting. 



I have read over the above, and declare that I have nothing further 

 to say on seal-hunting, and that I have voluntarily made this state- 

 ment. 



And I, Walter Heay, make this solemn declaration conscientiously 

 believing the same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act respecting 

 Extra- Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) Walter Heay. 



Signed and declared at the city of Victoria, British Columbia, this 

 6th day of October, a. d. 1892, before me. 



(Signed) A. L. Bel yea, 



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



88 Declaration of Mattheiv McGrath. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Matthew McGrath, of the city of Victoria, and Province of British 

 Columbia, do solemnly and sincerely dechire: 



1. That I was this year engaged as hunter on the sealing-schooner 

 "Geneva," and that on that vessel sealed from the Columbia River 

 north along the Alaskan coast, and then went to the Asiatic side of 

 Behring Sea. 



2. I secured this year 174 skins and lost 3 seals that I killed and could 

 not secure before they sank. I did not wound more than 5 or 6 badly 

 enough to cause their deaths afterwards, and am not sure that any I so 

 wounded would die. 



3. More than half, I think, of the seals I took on the coast this year 

 were females, and the same is true of the seals taken on the Asiatic 

 side. 



4. I saw seals in small schools this year, but a seal is harder to get 

 when one of even a small school than when it is alone. 



5. I shoot at seals when 20 or 30 yards from them, seldom, if ever, 

 more than 30 yards away, but at sleeping seals at much shorter range. 



6. I took seals on both sides of the Pacific Ocean this year, and saw 

 many others, but I could not see, and do not believe there is any differ- 

 ence between the animals frequenting the two places. 



7. I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Matthew McGrath. 



Declared before me at the city of Victoria this 14th day of , 1892. 

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



Attorney Public in and for the Province of British Columbia. 



