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2. Tliat in 1891 T got 25 seals at odd times by sliooting from tlie 

 schooner or going out in the stern boat. 1 lost 2 by sinking in getting 

 the 25. This year I got in the same way 28 seals, but did not lose any. 



3. In 1891 the "Kosie Olsen" got about 300 seals on the coast. A 

 large majority of these were young bulls. This year the "Ainoko" 

 got 750 seals on the coast, about one-third cows; most of the old cows 

 were in pup, but some were barren. 



4. That in both 1S91 and 1892 I was behind the body of the seals 

 going north, and did not see so many seals on the lower coast as up 



about the 59th parallel north. About that latitude and 143° west 

 93 longitude this year I saw immense numbers of seals. I was 



among them for eight days before I got any, on account of rough 

 weather. The sea for miles was covered with schools numbering from 

 thirty to fifty, often many more. 



5. In 1890 I was in Behring Sea a full season on the " Sapj)hire," The 

 greater x^art of her catch in the sea that year was males. I remember 

 of two cows in i)up and a number in milk, but I cannot give the number. 



6. I have always had Indian hunters; they used both spear and gun. 

 Very few seals — not any to my knowledge — were lost by my hunters, 

 either when speared or shot. 



7. That I have never got more than half-a-dozen old bulls in a season's 

 catch ; they stay on land till late in the fall, and go back early the next 

 spring. 



8. That in 1890 in Behring Sea a hunter picked up a dead seal float- 

 ing. It had been dead a day or two from a gun-shot. That is the only 

 "floater" I have ever seen. 



9. I saw more seals on the coast this year than in either of the previ- 

 ous years I was out, and all the captains and hunters I have talked 

 with say the same. My Indian hunters said they had never seen so 

 many seals on the coast as this year. The seals this year all along the 

 coast were bunched, that is, in schools or bands. They were hard to 

 get wdien found this way. Hunters like best to get among scattered 

 seals, not more than two or three together; the seals then are mostly 

 asleep, and are easily approached. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act resx)ecting Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) George Heater. 



Subscribed and declared by the said George Heater before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 15th day of 

 November, A. d. 1892. 



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



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



Declaration of Albert J. Bertram. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Albert J. Bertram, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, seal hunter, do solemnly declare as follows: 



1. That I have been sealing for the past six years. 



2. That during the past four years I have been engaged as a hunter. 



3. During the season of 1889 I was on board the schooner "Annie C. 

 Moore," and killed 352 seals. 



