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4. This year I hunted myself. I got 90 skins, and lost 1 by sinking. 

 I wounded 8 or 10 that got away from me. I could have got most of 

 them but for the fresh breeze blowing — the seal>i making off to the 

 windward, as they always do when shot at or wounded. The hunters I 

 was with lost very few wounded seals. 



5. I saw more seals in 1801 than in any previous year. This year I 

 did not see so many as last year because we were behind the body of 

 the herd going north. 



6. Not more than half of the seals I got this year were females. I 

 got 44 seals on the upi)er coast; over half were females, and most of the 

 females were with pup. On the Copper Island grounds I got 46 seals, 

 more than half females; none of them in pup, a few in milk. 



7. The seals on the Copper Island side are darker in colour than on 

 this side, but I do not think there is any other difference. 



8. That I have been sealing three seasons in Behring Sea, off the 

 Pribyloff Islands. In 1890, on the " Mollie Adams," we got nearly 900 

 skins there, and the next year, on the "Carmolite," 1,028 skins. In 

 both years the catch was about half males and half females. Early in 

 the season — about 1st to 15th July — we got a few cows in pup, and after 

 that some cows in milk, but as the season grew later very few of these 

 were got. Every year I was out we got barren cows on the coast, but 

 in the sea we cannot tell wliether the cow is barren or not. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Joseph Brown. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Joseph Brown before me, a 

 Notary Public in and for the Province of British Columbia, this 24th 

 day of November, A. d. 1892. 



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



A Notary Public for British Columbia. 



Declaration of LuJce McOrath. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia,, City of Victoria. 



I, Luke McGrath, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, seaman, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been two seasons out sealing in the North Pacific. In 

 1891 on the "Ocean Belle," boatsteerer at first, and in the latter part 

 of the season hunter. 



In 1892 I was mate of the "Dora Steward," and hunted in the stern 

 or ship's boat. 



2. In 1891 1 got 191 seals — 56 on the coast and 135 on the Asiatic side. 

 On the coast I did not lose any by sinking. I wounded some — not more 

 than ten — that escaped; I wounded a few others tliat I got. Those 

 that escaped were not badly wounded, and I believe all lived. It takes 

 a bad wound to kill a seal. 



3. That the 56 seals I got on the coast last year were about half 

 females, 15 or 20 of which were with pup. 



4. This year, 1892. I got 18 seals; did not leave Victoria until 0th 

 May. About half were females, 5 or 6 with ])up, 



5. On the Asiatic side in both years J got 201 seals; more than half 

 of them were males. Last year I got one female there with pup, none 



