718 APPENDIX TO COUNTEK-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



In Behring- Sea the majority of cows got are in milk, but I liave also 

 got barren cows there. 



Last year aud this year I hunted on the Russian coast, crossing over 

 there each year about the last of June or beginning of July, and got 

 back about the end of Sejitember. On each occasion in returning we 

 saw seals more or less every day, and noticed them south of the Aleutian 

 Islands as we came to Sand Point, on the Alaska Peninsula. 



Seals are nearly all shot with a gun, and are mostly all taken at 

 from 10 to 30 yards. 



Seals travel in schools, and are harder to got than in ones or twos. 

 While in schools they are mixed as to age and sex. There is no such 

 thing as a leader to a school, and I never heard a practical sealer say 

 there was, and I always try to get the first one I can. 



I do not know of any vessel having been sealing in the Behring Sea 

 this year that was not warned away or seized, and I feel certain I 

 would have heard of it if there had been any. 



I have never noticed any difference in the quality between the Rus- 

 sian and the American skin, but I think the former is a little darker, 

 and there is no difference between the coast skins and the Behring Sea 

 skins. 



A great part of our ammunition is used in practice or hunting game 

 for food, aud I have fired as many as 150 shells at a mark in one day. 



I think some j^rotection for the seals is necessary to preserve the seal 

 from decreasing, but any close season should embrace the islands as 

 well as the ocean. 



I have not been promised anything, nor has anything been paid me, 

 in consideration of having made the foregoing statement, which I have 

 read over and found correct. 



(Signed) Milton Scott. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 28th day of November, 1892. 

 [SEAL,.] (Signed) Lincoln Sonntag, Notary Public. 



124 Deposition of Captain J. S. Worth. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco, s.s. 



Captain J. S. Worth, of San Francisco, being duly sworn, dei^oses 

 and swears: 



1. I reside in Provincetown, in the State of Massachusetts, United 

 States. I have been hunting seal for the last four years, and am a 

 l)ractical hunter. I was in the "Henry Denis" for two years, and in 

 the schooner "Linfu" for two years, and was in her in 1891, when she 

 was seized in Behring Sea on the 14th July. 



2. I have sealed along this coast to Kadiak and into the Behring Sea. 

 We commence sealing anywhere between February and April, aud 

 return about the end of September. 



3. I always use either a shot-gun or a rifle, but a rifle is very seldom 

 used. 



4. I have never kept count of the number of my losses made in shoot- 

 ing, but from 10 to 15 per cent, would certainly cover what would sink 

 after death, and Avhat would get away mortally wounded. 



5. The range at which I would take nearly all my seals is between 10 

 and 30 yards. 



G. Seals travel in schools a good deal, and when doing so are harder 

 to get than when straggling. I never heard of there being a leader in 



