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a female killed in the Sea having mnoli milk in them. I have seen 

 more milk in cows heavy with pnp killed on the ujiper coast than I 

 ever saw in cows withont pups killed in the Sea. 



9. That I have handled fur-seal skius in greater or less quantities 

 nearly every year since 1809. The average size is fully as large now 

 as it was ten or lifteen years ago. The average size in Behring Sea 

 catches is a little larger than in coast catches on account of the larger 

 number of grey pujis taken on the coast. 



10. That all along the coast the seals follow the fish on which they 

 live. In years when the schools of fish strike in shore the seals are also 

 found close in. I have known seals to come right into Barclay Sound 

 one year, and then for two years or more none would come in. 



11. That in 1875 I was sealing olf Queen Charlotte Island. I landed 

 at several jjlaces on the north-west coast of the island. The Indians 

 there told me that lots of seals used to haul-out there on the beaches 

 and rocks. 



12. That this year I handled a lot of skins taken on the Copper Island 

 grounds. I did not notice any diflerence between them and skins taken 

 on the coast or this side of Behring Seaj the two lots appear to me 

 exactly alike. 



13. That I employed both Indians and white hunters on my vessels. 

 Indian hunters seldom lose a seal they once strike with the spear. 

 White hunters lose a few they shoot by sinking, and wound a few that 

 escape. This is, however, confined to inexperienced hunters. I have 

 myself shot seals from the schooner, lowered a boat, and picked up the 

 seal. I have often done that when the vessel was under way — shot the 

 seal dead, rounded to, low^ered a boat, rowed to the seal 150 yards dis- 

 tant, and picked it up. As a rule seals shot dead do not sink for some 

 time — fully ten minutes — often longer. 



14. That [ do not remember ever finding dead seals on the water — 

 ^'floaters" as they are sometimes called. 



15. That hunters can get most seals when they find them scattered 

 and sleeping. When found in bunches there is generally a "watch- 

 man" that gives the alarm when a hunter approaches. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) J. D. Warren. 



Subscribed and declared by the said James Douglas Warren before 

 me, a Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising 

 at the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 21st 

 day of November, A. d. 1892. 



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



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



100 Declaration of Micajah Pinelcney. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 



I, Micajah Pinckney, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, master mariner, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been fur seal hunting in the North Pacific Ocean two 

 seasons; this year, not having been warned, I was also in the Behring 

 Sea for about a mouth. Last year (1891) I was mate of the " C H. Tup- 

 per," and this year master of the "Henrietta." 



