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this year, except a dead one I picked up. There was no wound on this 

 seal, and it had died a natural death. The pup was well nurtured. 



6. That there is no difference between the seals on the American and 

 Asiatic coasts, so far as I can see. Their habits in the water are the 

 same, though the seals on the Asiatic side are a little tamer. 



7. That I saw more seals this year on the part of the coast I was on 

 than on the same coast last year, though I got fewer seals, because of 

 rough weather. I saw more seals in bands this year than last, especially 

 on the upper coast. Last year was ray first year out sealin g. I wounded 

 more seals last year than this, twice as many, according to the number 

 I got; a good average hunter does not lose more than 6 per cent, by 

 sinking. I know hunters who lose less than that. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Luke McGbath. 



103 Subscribed and declared by the said Luke McGrath before me, 



a Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising 

 at the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 25tli 

 day of November, A. D. 1892. 

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



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



Declaration of James Siteman, 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 



I, James Siteman, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, seaman, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been five seasons in sealing-schooners in the North 

 Pacific Ocean, three of which I was also in Behring Sea. In 1888 and 

 1889 I was on the " Ad^le," in 1890 on the "Walter L. Eich," in 1891 

 on the " Ocean Belle," and in 1892 on the " Geneva." All these seasons 

 I was first mate. 



2. That the sealing voyages of these schooners extended from off the 

 northern coast of California to about the Pribyloff Islands, and from 

 about the middle of January till September. In the " Adele" in 1889 

 the hunters got 250 on the coast, and in 1890, 200 on the coast. Both 

 catches were about half females, most of the females in pup. In 1890, 

 in the " Walter L. Eich," the hunters got, between Barclay Sound and 

 Sand' Point, in May and June, about 600 seals. This catch was nearly 

 all males; of the females very few were in pup; most of them were 

 young cows, and a few barren. 



3. That in 1891, on the " Ocean Belle," the hunters got 762 on the 

 coast. These seals were got along the whole coast from off Cape Men- 

 docino to off Kadiak Island. This catch was about half females, and 

 about one-half of these were with pup ; the other half young females 

 and barren cows. 



4. That in 1892 the hunters on the "Geneva" got 500 skins on the 

 coast between Cape Mendocino and off St. Paul on Kadiak Island. 

 This catch of seals was three-fifths males, and nearly all the rest were 

 barren cows. Only a few cows with pup were got. The " Geneva " was 

 four or five days about 80 miles off shore from Mount St. Elias in June. 

 The hunters got about 200 seals there, and the most of these were bar- 



