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Botli on the coast and in the Sea about one-half my catch was 

 females, and on the coast abont half the females were with pup. In 

 Behring !Sea no fctiiales in pup were taken. In the first part of the 

 season in the Sea I got a number of cows in milk, but alter the 1st 

 Angust the cows were nearly all dried up. The seals were got from 80 

 to 125 miles from the Islands — most of the seals from 80 to 100 miles off. 



5. That in 1892 I got 286 seals on the coast, and lost by sinking 1. 

 After the coast sealing was over we went to Copper Island grounds. 

 I got 78 seals there, and lost two by sinking. 1 kept count of all the 

 seals I lost in that way, both last year and tliis year, and am sure of 

 the nujnber for each year. My catch on the coast was about one-third 

 females this year, and most of these were with pup. On the Copper 

 Island side about half I got were females, none with pup, some with 

 milk, but most of the cows were dried uj). 



6. That coming home this year from Copper Island grounds I saw 

 some scattering seals about 500 miles south of the Aleutian Islands 

 along the 50th parallel of north latitude. Last year I saw some seals 

 when about half way between Unimak Pass and Cape Flattery in nearly 

 a direct course between these points. 



7. That the fur of the seals generally on the Asiatic coast is a shade 

 darker than on this side, but 1 have seen seals on this coast as dark in 

 colour as any I saw over there. Except in this respect there is no dif- 

 ference between them. 



8. That I saw more seals on the coast this year than in any other 

 year I have been out. The largest number I have seen at one place 

 and time was on the Fairweather grounds this year in the latter part of 

 April and in May. On the lower coast I have seen great numbers of 

 seals off Cape Flattery in February, and off Cape Cook in March. 



9. Most of the seals I have lost by sinking were shot from a long dis- 

 tance — from 75 to 150 yards. I have killed and got seals shot with a 

 rifle at a distance of 200 yards. 



10. That last year I picked up one dead seal on the water in Behring 

 Sea. It had been killed by a shot in the body, and had been dead two 

 or three days. 



11. That very few seals that are badly wounded escape. They are 

 followed up, and a second shot kills them. Those that escape are 

 wounded very little, and soon get well. I have got several seals that 

 have been wounded. One old bull I remember had a charge of buck- 

 shot just in front of the fore flipper. The shot was all there, and had 

 evidently been there two or three years. It is almost impossible to kill 



a seal with shot unless the vitals are reached. 

 109 And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing 



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

 judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) A. W. Eoland. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Arthur W. 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. 1882. 



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



A Notary Fuhlic in and for the Province of British Golumhia. 



