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parallel north latitude. This would be about September, between the 

 middle and 1st October. 



7. In ray three years' sealing I have picked up three dead seals, two 

 this year on this coast, and one in Behriug Sea in 1890. One of those 



got this year I bad killed myself a short time before; it was still 

 108 warm. I know it was one I had killed myself, as there were no 



other hunters around. The other oue this year I got early iu 

 the morning close to the vessel where we had been hunting the day 

 before. The one in Behring Sea had been dead a day or two; it had 

 been shot through the ribs, and very badly wounded. 



8. That iu each year I have been out I have seen the seals in bunches 

 or schools, from three to fifteen in a bunch, and sometimes a large 

 school of these bunches. I have seen this all along the coast from 

 Cape Flattery north to the Behring Sea, and in Behring Sea I have 

 seen very large bands of seals — all kinds of seals mixed up. Generally 

 these bands and schools are made up of all ages of both sexes, but 

 now and then I have seen a bunch of all one kind and sex. As we go 

 north the cows with pup draw ahead of the others and enter Behring 

 Sea first. Large bulls ("wigs") seldom come south of Queen Charlotte 

 Island, and go back to the Sea very early. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) W. P. Eoland. 



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

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 6th day of 

 December, A. D. 1892. 



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



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



Declaration of Arthur W. Roland. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Golumhia, City of Victoria. 



I, Arthur W. Eoland, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of 

 British Columbia, Canada, fur-seal hunter, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been out in three successive years hunting fur-seals 

 in the Korth Pacific Ocean, two of which I was in Behring Sea and 

 once over on Copper Island grounds. 



I was first out in 1890 on the "Ocean Belle," and in 1891 and 1892 on 

 the"CarlottaG. Cox." 



2. That in each year I was with my brother William F. Eoland, whose 

 declaration I have read. I have a personal knowledge of what is 

 therein contained, and it is true and correct. 



3. That in 1890, my first year, I got 73 seals on the coast, and 49 in 

 Behriug Sea. The "Ocean Belle" experienced very rough and thick 

 weather, and had only a few good days in August while iu the Sea. 

 I lost none on the coast by sinking, but in Behring Sea I lost two. I 

 don't remember how many cows I got, either on the coast or in Behriug 

 Sea, that year. 



4. That in 1891 I got 125 seals on the coast, and lost 3 by sinking. In 

 Behring Sea I got 279 seals, and lost by sinking not more than 5. I 

 think the exact number was 4. 



