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The next year 1 bunted on the .schooner "Triumi)h," a small vessel; we 

 used the same kind of guns. We did not get many seals, as we were 

 poorly armed. I went to the Japan coast in 1882, in February, and 

 hunted there, and came back in 1886, after the season. In November 

 we got here. In 1887 1 was out on the " Mary Ellen," in 1888 the " Pene- 

 lope" for the spring, and the " Maggie Mac" for the summer. In 1889 

 and 1890 I was on the "Penelope" as master. I was a hunter on the 

 other vessels. Last year I was on tlie "Annie C. Moore" as a hunter. 



4. Last year, out of about 400 seals, I did not lose five. I never have 

 lost many seals, because if I cannot get close enough to be sure of them, 

 I don't shoot at all. 



5. I have never counted the males and females I killed, and do not 



know how many of either I killed, or in what proportion they were. 

 91 6. I have seen seals travelling in schools, hundreds together, 



but it is impossible to get within 300 yards of them, and all 

 would start "breeching," and go away. 



7. I have killed thousands of seals on the Japan coast and on this 

 side, and there is no difference between them; none of the men I hunted 

 with could tell them apart. I don't believe that any man could tell 

 them apart. 



8. I have been much about the Pribyloff Islands, and in thick weather 

 it is liard to tell where we are, and we drift a little. I noticed that the 

 currents drifted us to the southward, as a rule. 



9. If seals were protected on the rookeries there would be no danger 

 of exterminating them as long as they have the islands to go to and 

 are looked after there. 



10. I know that male seals after they are a few years old have teats, 

 but I never noticed the young seals; perhaps they may have. 



11. I have hundreds of times seen seals attempting to have connec- 

 tion with one another, but would not swear that they actually succeeded 

 in having ])roper connection with one another. There is a class of 

 seals of a larger size than those usually killed by the Company on 

 5hore, that do not haul out with the young males, and are not allowed 

 on the rookeries by the old bulls; these are the seals that attempt to 

 serve the females, and I have heard people say that they had seen them 

 actually do it, but I would not swear that I had. 



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. U. Folger. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Albert 0. 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. 



rsEAL.] (Signed) A. L. Belyea, 



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



Declaration of Charles Peters. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Charles Peters, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, do solemnly declare as follows: 

 1. I am a mariner. 



