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died afterwards. I told him that I thought about 40 per cent, of the 

 seals taken on the coast were females, and this was taken down. I 

 said that my experience in Behring- Sea was that about 60 per cent, 

 were females. 1 told him that not more than 2 or 3 jier cent, were lost, 

 and that a good hunter wounded very few seals badly that he did not 

 get. I told Captain Lavender that not more than one seal in 100 that 

 was crippled by a hunter and not got would die afterwards. I was 

 asked what I considered would be a good way of protecting the seals, 

 and told him that, in my opinion, if there was no killing on the islands, 

 and there was a close season from the 1st January to the 15th July or 

 1st August, nothing more would be necessary to fully protect the seal. 

 After my evidence had been taken down, it was read over to me, and I 

 found that many things I had said were misconstrued, and I insisted 

 on having these set right. He first made changes that I would not 

 agree to, and then wrote down what I wanted. I signed the statement 

 then, but was not asked to swear to it. When the hunters came on 

 board, only one of them — my brother — was examined. They appar- 

 ently did not care for the kind of evidence he gave, and did not ask 

 to examine the others. The hunters were surprised that only one of 

 them should be asked to give evidence when all had been invited on 

 board to do so. 



I know Brown, who was on the " Corwin " as seal-hunter. He is 

 known on the coast everywhere as " crazy " Brown, and is well known 

 to be of no use whatever as a hunter. I gathered from the officers on 

 the "Corwin" that they thought it very strange that he did not get 

 more seals. He had had little experience as a hunter, and was not a 

 man that any captain who knew anything about sealing would take 

 out with him as a hunter. 



This year, before I got to the Fairweather Grounds, my catch was 

 males and females mixed in the usual way, but when we got to the 

 Fairweather Grounds our catch was almost exclusively males. The 

 day the "Corwin" was with us I was asked for the carcases of the 

 seals that were taken that day, and gave them 40; 39 of these were 

 males. I took 1,040 seals in April, and there was not among them 

 more than 50 females. 



I saw on the coast this year more seals than ever before, taking 

 1,825 skins for my coast catch. 



1 never in the years I was on the Japan coast saw seals in consider- 

 able numbers in the water — certainly in notlnng like the numbers they 

 are reported there now. I have seen many thousand skins from both 

 the Asiatic and American sides of Behring Sea, and could never 

 115 see any difference between them, and do not believe that any one 

 could. I sealed on both sides this year, and do not believe that 

 any one could separate my Copper Island skins from the American 

 coast skins. 



I have frequently heard of raids being made on the Pribyloff Islands. 

 In 1881 or 1882 two schooners anchored to the northward of St. Paul 

 Island for nearly the whole summer. They were the "Otter" and 

 "Alexander," vessels owned by Liebes and Co., of San Francisco. The 

 captains of these vessels told me of this themselves. In 1890, in Sep- 

 tember, the "C. H. White" made a raid on the islands, and from what I 

 was told by the men on board of her nothing was known on the islands 

 of this raid. The " Edward Webster" raided St. George Island in 1889. 

 The Captain told me of this himself, and it is well known in San Fran- 

 cisco, i have seen money stamjied "A. C. C," and know that this was 

 done to prevent natives receiving money from outside people, as they 



