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remember one year, when I was in the " San Diego," that we got 93 

 seals in one day (LOth September) with three boats. This was off 

 Bogosloft' Eoclv, in tlie Behring Sea. 



I cannot remember tlie nnmbers of seals taken by the different 

 128 vessels I have been in in their different years, not my own indi- 

 vidual catches, thongh I have it all written down somewhere, I 

 cannot now lay my hand on it. 



Have always used a gun or rifle, but hunted seals mostly with a shot- 

 gun, and most we got under 15 yards. A careful hunter will lose very 

 few seals, and 10 per cent, will fully cover his loss. 



A seal that has been killed after several shots, and struggled a good 

 deal, will float much longer than one that has been suddenly killed. 



A good many seals are destroyed by ''killer whales," and I have had 

 a seal taken away by them after I had killed it. 



Seals travel a great deal in schools, and are very much more watch- 

 ful then than when alone or in twos. Never heard of a leader to a 

 school, but I have seen "watchers" on the look-out. 



In my experience there is no difference in the fur of any of the seals, 

 American or Eussian, but 1 have killed seals off Guadaloupe Island 

 and found the fur lighter in colour and quality, and not as valuable as 

 the others. 



I have crossed from San Francisco to Yokohama many, many times, 

 and have taken many different courses. In courses made from 35° to 

 45° north have seen seals off and on every day all the way across in 

 January, February, and March, but south of that have scarcely seen 

 any. 



I know all the vessels sealing out of this port, and I never heard of 

 the "Maggie Eoss," and I know most of the seal-hunters from here, 

 and certainly all the well-known and good hunters. I never heard of 

 a seal-hunter called C3harles Cliallal, nor William H. Long, nor Henry 

 Mason, nor John Dalton, nor Eichard DolaUj uor William Fraser, nor 

 Thomas Gibson, nor William Mclsaac, nor Patrick Maroney, nor Miles 

 Nelson, nor Adolphus Stairs, nor John Woodruff, nor Joseph Denis, 

 nor Frank M. Gaffney, nor Martin Hannon, nor Andrew Hoffman, nor 

 James Kennedy, nor James Malloy, nor Frank Moreau, nor James Sloan, 

 nor E. W. Soron, nor G. Sundrall, nor William Hensen, nor Adolph W. 

 Thompson, and none of the foregoing can be prominent hunters, or 

 hunters of any ability, or have any record. 



I have not been paid anything or promised anything in consideration 

 of having made the foregoing statement, which I have read over and 

 found correct. 



(Signed) W. F. Upson. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 30th day of November, 1892. 

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



Deposition of Captain Adolphe F. Carlson. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



Captain Adolphe F. Carlson, of San Francisco, being duly sworn, 

 deposes as follows : 



1. I reside in San Francisco, and have hunted for sea fur-skins for 

 the past eighteen years; since 1883 have hunted on this coast, but 

 previously on the Japan coast for sea-otter. 



