APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CAJ?E OP GREAT BRITAIN. G67 



2. I have been five years connected witli the sealing bnsiness. 



3. Last year (1891) 1 was mate of the "Mascotte," and this year (1892) 

 mate of the " Oscar and Hattie." 



4. Seals were fully as plentiful this year as last on the coast. 



5. I have found more females than males in both years. 



6. In the latter part of September 1891 I saw in the neighbourhood 

 of the Pribylofl' Islands shoals of seal pups; I am not sure whether 

 they were of that year or year before. 



7. In Bristol Bay in September 1891 the hunters of the "Mascotte" 

 got a number of seals. 



8. I was on Copper Island side this year. I got more males there 

 than females in proportion to the number caught than on Pribylotf 

 Islands side. 



9. Last November, in returning from the Copper Island side, I saw 

 seals from there to 400 miles from Vancouver Island coast. 



10. I never examined male seals to see if they had teats. 



11. I never saw seals cohabiting in the water, but I have heard others 

 say they did. 



12. If there was a Chart showing plenty of soundings, I would be 

 able, from my knowledge of navigation, to tell the distance from islands 

 in Behring Sea. 



13. I was guard on Otter Island in 1882; seals occasionally came and 

 hauled out on the beach. 



And 1 make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) CiiAS. Petees. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Charles Peters 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) Arthur L. Bbltea, 



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



92 Declaration of Henry Paxton, 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia^ City of Victoria^ 



I, Henry Paxton, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, Canada, master mariner, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. That I have been thirteen years sealing on the coast of the North 

 Pacific Ocean, and have been three times or seasons in the Behring Sea. 



2. That I have never been out with white hunters; always with 

 Indians. 



3. In former years the Indians used the spear entirely, but for the 

 last five or six years they have used the gun a good deal, and the use 

 of the gun is rapidly throwing the spear into disuse. 



4. That the past season, 1892, on the coast between Destruction 

 Island, about 00 miles south of Cape Flattery, and Cape Scott, the 

 north-west point of Vancouver Island, I saw more seals than I saw in 

 any other season in my experience. The largest bodies of seals I saw 

 this year were off Ohsett, 15 miles south of Cape Flattery, oft" Clayquot 

 Sound, Cape Beale, and Esperanza inlet. At these places the schools 

 or bands numbered from 25 to 200 and 300. 



