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4. During- tlie whole five seasons I was on the Japan coast I never 

 saw seals at sea other than a scattered few here and there, and we 

 never saw them in anything like the numbers I saw them on this coast 

 a few years later on. I am told they are now to be found on the Japan 

 coast — whether the seals formerly went to the Commander Islands 

 by way of the Aleutian Islands or not I do not know, but I have 

 heard that seals used to haul out on one of the Aleutian Islands — Atka, 

 I think — and that white men paid the natives to drive the seals away, 

 and they were given stuff to put on the water that would look like fire 

 and so frighten the seals, I know of places in the North Pacific where 

 seals are to be found in abundance, but whether these seals go to the 

 Commander Islands or the Pribyloff Islands there is no way of telling. 

 I remember when near an island called Midway Island, northward of 

 the Sandwich, seeing them in great numbers, such that had I been 

 pelagic sealing I would have thought it worth while stopping to hunt 

 them, but we were anxious to get to Yokohama. These seals are as 

 likely to go to the Commander Islands as the Pribyloff Islands, and it 

 seems to me very probable that the seals from the American Islands 

 and those from the Asiatic Islands may mingle there. I mean that 

 those that go farthest south on both sides very likely mix there. 



5. I have seen Eskimo wearing clothes made of fur-seal skins when 

 north of Behring Straits when trading there, and I once saw a fur-seal 

 lassoed when north of East Cape, and on the same cruize the captain 

 in my pesence shot a fur-seal from the deck of the vessel, a boat was 

 lowered, and the seal was got. The mate also shot them. I don't know 

 where these seals came from, but am sure they were fur-seals. I have 

 known fur-seals for nearly twenty years. 



6. I solemnly declare that all the statements written down herein are 

 correct, and that I have read them carefully, and have received no con- 

 sideration for the evidence I have given. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) A. C. Folger. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Albert C. Folger before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 City of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 8th day of 

 November, A. d. 1892. 



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



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



Third Declaration of Captain Albert C. Folger. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Captain Albert C. Folger, at present of the city of Victoria, in the 

 Province of British Columbia, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. That I have been sea-otter or seal hunting the past nineteen years, 

 except last year. 



2. I consider that I was the first white man who hunted seals on this 

 coast. The Indians said that a white man couldn't kill seals, but I said 

 what an Indian could do a white man could. 



I was out first in 1880 on the "Udora," a San Francisco vessel. We 

 used muzzle-loading shot-guns. We did not get many seals that year. 



