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€oast, of wliicli I got personally 145, We then went into tlie Behring 

 Sea, and only got about 20, as we were warned (ordered) out. 



This year, 1892, on the "Ivanhoe," we left here directly for the Japan 

 coast on the 6th February, passing through the Sandwich Islands, and 

 never hunted until we reached the Japanese coast, where we got 1,294, 

 and I got myself 253 seals. 



Out of the 152 I shot at in 1891 on the coast I don't believe I lost 

 from sinking or mortally wounding more than 7 seals, and consider my 

 percentage of loss at not more than 6 or 7 per cent. I consider the 

 average hunter ought not to lose more than from 5 to 7 per cent, of 

 those he gets. 



I think that if I happen to shoot a seal just as he has filled his lungs 

 that he will float a long time. I know that I have killed a seal and 

 picked him up six or seven hours later, and on one occasion I killed a 

 seal from among five others, and waited around seeing the others trying 

 to bring him under by catching his flipper. This they could not do, as 

 he would float, and I killed all the five before I picked this one up. 



Seals swim in schools. I have seen in the Japan Sea as many as 300 

 in a bunch, but they would be very hard to get at when in that way. 

 I never heard of a leader to a school; when going in this way the sexes 

 are all mixed up, and so are the young and old. 



I shot almost all my seals with a shot-gun at about 15 to 18 yards 

 distant. 1 have never shot more than a dozen with a rifie. 



There is no limit to the quantity of ammunition we may rise, and there 

 is more used on birds and at a mark than on seals. 



I got about 65 per cent, of cows on the coast, and the proportion is 

 about the same on the Japan coast. We very seldom get an old bull. 



On the way home this year during the month of July, on the " great 

 circle" track, we saw seals every day; some days as ma.ny as 20.. '^ 



I have never seen seals cohabiting in the water. 



The only vessel I heard of being in the Behring Sea that was not 

 warned out or seized was the "Allie I. Alger." 

 132 Before I went sealing I was a sailor out of this port, and very 



well acquainted with all the vessels engaged in hunting, and there 

 is no vessel engaged in the sealing named "Maggie Boss." I also am 

 acquainted with t:he hunters and men that go on sealing- vessels and 

 other ships, and I do not know Charles Challal, nor James Sloan, nor 

 William Long, nor James Fyfe, nor Henry Mason, nor John Dalton, 

 Bichard Dolan, James Kennedy, Patrick Maroney, Miles Nelson, nor 

 Adolphus Sayers. If any of those men had any record I would be 

 bound to hear of them. 



I have not been promised nor paid anything in consideration of having 

 made the above statements, which I have read over and found correct. . 



(Signed) Harry John Lund. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 1st day of December, 1892.. 

 fSEAii.J (Signed) Lincoln Sonntag, FotoryPw&^tc. 



Deposition of Charles HariUcen. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



Charles Haritwen, of San Francisco, being duly sworn, deposes and 

 says : 



1. I live in the city of San Francisco, in the State of California, and 

 am an American subject. 



