730 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



131 Deposition of P. E. Peterson. 



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



i P. E. Peterson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 



1. P. E. Peterson is my name, and I am a resident of San Francisco. 

 1 am an American subject, and for the past two years have been liunt- 

 3ng seals in the schooner "Lily L.," belonging to 0. D. Ladd, of this 

 <iity, and both years sealed from San Francisco to Kadiak along the 

 «coast. 



2. Last year, 1891, I cannot say how many the schooner got, but I 

 Only got 35, as I joined at Port Townshcnd after the most of their catch 

 had been made. 



3. This year the schooner's catch was about 613, of which I got 79 

 alter missing several of the best days through sickness. 



4. I always hunt with shot-gun and rifle, and this year I kept count 

 of those I lost from sinking after being shot, and the number was 3 

 altogether. I would place the loss that a good hunter would make at 

 not more than 5 in 100. 



5. The range for a shot-gun at which I would get seals would be at 8 

 to 30 yards, and nearly all my seals are taken with shot-gun. A seal 

 that has struggled, and been killed after several shots, will float for a 

 Jong time. 



6. I have never found a dead seal floating — commonly called 

 '^' stinkers." 



7. Seals travel in schools, and are mixed as to age and sex, and when 

 in schools are harder to get at than when in ones or twos. I never 

 heard of a leader to a school of seals. 



8. We can use what ammunition we like while on the vessel for shoot- 

 ing birds and practising, and there is a great deal used in that way. 



9. Along the coast my experience is that we get about half males and 

 half females, and after passing Sitka we get more old bulls than on this 

 side of it, but we get very few old " wigs." 



10. I have not heard of any vessel having taken seals in Behring Sea 

 this year that was not warned out or seized. 



11. I have killed lots of barren cows. 



12. Seals were more plentiful, I think, this year than in 1891. They 

 are not decreasing, but they are harder to get, as they are growing 

 wilder. 



13. I have not been paid or promised anything in consideration of 

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

 correct. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 2nd day of December, 1892. 



(Signed) P. E. Peterson. 



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



Deposition of Harry Jolm Lund. 



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

 Harry John Lund, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 

 Am a resident of San Francisco, and an American subject. Have 

 hunted seals for two years; first in 1891 in the "City of San Diego," 

 and this year in the "Ivanhoe." 



In 1891, in the "City of San Diego," we hunted up this coast, leav- 

 ing San Francisco on the 11th February. We got about 700 on the 



