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off Cape Flattery. This was the first pelagic sealing 1 had ever done, 

 and had not heard of other white men killing seals in the water before 

 that time. We went from there to the Shimigin Islands, killing some 

 seals as we went along, and spent some time there, going into Behring 

 Sea in the latter part of June. We didn't hunt seals there, but were 

 looking for walrus. We were at St. Matthew Island the 4th July, and 

 went from there to Copper Island. We landed there one clear day, and 

 in an hour and a-half took 250 seals, and had them all on board before 

 the natives came to where we were. We went away then, but came 

 back the next night. We were fired on by the natives, and did not 

 land. We went from there to Kobben Island, reaching there about the 

 1st November. Our schooner and three others anchored there, and we 

 went ashore and clubbed the seals. Our schooner's share was 800 

 skins. We wont from there to Yokahama, where I remained. 



The next year, 1882, 1 sailed from Yokahama in the schooner "Otome" 

 otter hunting to the Kurile Islands. The year before this Captain Snow 

 had found a new rookery on Shred-noi Island, and in 1882 we went there 

 and camped ashore; there were eight schooners of us. I do not remem- 

 ber exactly how many seals we got then, but know that there were 1,000 

 in the first drive. A rookery had been found on Moo-shire Eocks the 

 year before, and we worked both rookeries that summer. Shred-noi 

 Island and Moo shire Bock are about 160 miles apart, and form part of 

 the Kurile group. We went from there to Eobben Island, and waited 

 until the " Leon " — the vessel that was guarding the island — went away; 

 we then landed and killed about 12,000 seals. It was either this year or 

 the previous one, I am not now sure which, that Captain Blair, of the 

 " Leon," had, in order to break up the rookery, killed all the seals that 

 could be found. He did not have them skinned, but simply cut them 

 down the back and across the body, and left them in piles on the beach 

 to rot. I estimated that there were about 20,000 in all. I heard that 

 after we had been there men landed and buried the seals so that others 

 would haul out, but while we were there nothing was done, and all the 

 seals we got were the ones that came ashore. From there we went to 

 Yokahama. 



In 1883 I went in the schooner ''Otsego," of Yokahama, sea-otter and 

 seal hunting, but we wanted particularly to find a rookery in tie Japan 

 Sea. I was mate and navigator. We were looking for the Waywoda 

 Rocks on which seals had been reported to haul out, but these rocks, I 

 believe, do not exist. We found seals, however, on the Bittern Kocks, 

 14 miles off north-west coast of Nipon Island. Tliey hauled out there 

 every year, though the natives killed them as fast as they came ashore. 

 We went salmon fishing after that, and then to Eobben Island, where 

 300 or 400 seals were got. 



In ] 884 1 was mate and hunter on the schooner '' Penelope ; " we hunted 

 sea-otter on the Kurile Islands, and then north along the Kamstchatkan 

 coast to Karaginski Island. We killed fur-seals here and there all up 

 the coast, and near Karaginski Island as well. These seals, I think, 

 were from the Commander Islands, as I was ashore in many places 

 114 on Karaginski Island, and saw no signs of fur-seals or of rookery 

 grounds. In 1881 when we went from St. Matthew Island to 

 Copper Island we went to Karaginski Island, but saw no fur-seals near 

 there. We landed on the two small islands to the northward of Kara- 

 ginski, and though we found no fur-seals we found a great many skele- 

 tons and skulls ashore therej the skulls were all broken up as if they 

 had been clubbed. 



