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5. That at all tlicso i)laces wlien I was there the weather was bad, 

 and I got few seals. The hunters always do better among scattered 

 seals than in the schools. When in schools some of the seals are always 

 awake and on the move, and when a canoe comes up the sleepers are 

 awakened by these, and the whole body moves away. 



6. Last year, in the Behring Sea, my hunters got 330 seals. Most of 

 these were young bulls. This year on the coast they got 139, and there 

 were only about 20 females in the lot. 



7. That male seals have teats, and male and female skins cannot be 

 told apart by the teats. 



8. That in my thirteen years' sealing I have known of only five or 

 six dead seals being found. One or two I found myself, and the rest 

 my hunters got. I did not examine them to see what had killed them. 

 1 su])posed they had been shot by hunters and lost. 



9. That in the winter of 1889 and 1890, in the months of December 

 and January, I was trading between Cape Mudge, through Johnston 

 Straits, to Knight's Inlet. In both years I got fur-seals all along John- 

 ston Straits in December and January. The seals were all young — 

 from yearlings to 3-year olds. The Indians get seals in Johnston 

 Straits every winter, especially at Nawatti, where there is a regular 

 sealing ground every winter. 



10. These Johnston Straits seals are identical with the coast and 

 Behring Sea seals. 



11. I believe there are as many seals in the water off the coast now 

 as there has ever been. I believe the slaughter on the rookeries is 

 more likely to exterminate the seals than deep-sea sealing. I am con- 

 vinced that less than one seal out of a thousand is killed on the coast, 

 and if more females than males are killed on the coast it is because 

 of the slaughter of bulls — principally young bulls — on the rookeries. 

 Stop the killing on the rookeries, give the seals a chance to breed 

 wherever they will without being disturbed, and the herd could not be 

 exterminated by open sea sealing. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Henry Paxton. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Henry Paxton before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and j)ractising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this loth day of 

 November, A. D. 1892. 



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



A Notary Public in and for the Provmce of British Columhia. 



Declaration of George Heater. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columhia, City of Victoria, 



I, George Heater, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, master mariner, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been seal-hunting on the Pacific coast of America 

 three years. 



In 1890 I was on the "Sapphire" as a seaman and boat-steerer. In 

 1891 1 was master of the "liosie Olsen," and in 1892 I was master of 

 the "Ainoko." 



