672 W^PPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



lated into Cliinook tlie statements in said declaration contained, and 

 that lie fully understood the same. 

 7. That I have lived in Victoria all my life, and understand Chinook 

 perfectly. 

 95 And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing 



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

 judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) Frank Woodman Adams. 



Subscribed and declared by the said F. W. Adams before me, a Notary 

 Public duly commissioned, and residing and i^ractising at the city of 

 Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 2nd day of Novem- 

 ber, A. D. 1892. 



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



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



Declaration of Andrew McGarva. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, 



I, Andrew McGarva, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, do solemnly declare as follows : 



1. I have been sealing five seasons, three as a hunter. In 1890 I was 

 on the "Bessie Eatler," of Astoria. In 1891 1 was on the "C. H. Tup- 

 per," and this year was on the "W. P. Sayward." 



2. In 1890 I took 181 skins, and lost 2 by sinking. In 1891 I secured 

 115, and lost 1 by sinking. This year I got 194, and lost 11. The boat- 

 steerer was not so good as in other years, and I account for the greater 

 loss in that way. If he had been a good man I would not have lost 

 more than 3 or 4. 



3. Not more than 1 in 50 seals are wounded so that they will die after- 

 wards. It is easy to tell when a seal is wounded by the blood, and it 

 and the bubbles show where it went down. 



4. I shoot at a sleeping seal when 15 to 25 yards from it, and would 

 not shoot at a "traveller" when more than 90 yards away. 



5. I found seals most abundant this year oft' " Pamplona Rocks." 



6. I have seen seals in schools often, both south of Cape Flattery and 

 n43rth along the coast. They are more difficult to get than when they 

 are single or in twos and threes. When there are several together there 

 is generally one awake, and the warning is then given to the others. 



7. I have noticed that males and females will often travel in separate 

 bodies, but they travel mixed together as well; the yearlings are mixed 

 with the others. 



8. This year I took a great many more males than females; the year 

 before they were in about equal numbers, and the year before that I 

 took more females than males. The males are more easily got than the 

 females, but old bulls are more difficult to get. 



9. In 1890 I got more females than males in Behring Sea, and on the 

 Eussian side there were a little more than half females this year. 



10. The seals on the Copper Island side are a little darker in colour, 

 I think, than those on the American side. 



11. On the way across, in about latitude 50°, we saw seals every fine 

 day. I don't know which islands they belonged to. 



12. About 80 miles off Copper Island we got a few seals of a lighter 

 colour, that looked like those on the American side. 



13. I saw more seals than formerly on the coast this year, and that 

 is what all the other hunters have told me. 



