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Maroney, nor Henry Mason, nor William Mason, nor E. W. Soron, nor 

 Cyrus Steplieus. 



9. And I have not been paid anytliiDg, nor has anything been prom- 

 ised me, in consideration of making the foregong statement, which I 

 have read over and have found correct. 



(Signed) Charles Haritwen. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 1st dav of December, a. d. 

 1892. 

 [SEAL.] _ (Signed) John Coffee, 



A iSotary Public in and for the City and County of 



San Francisco, State of California. 



133 Deposition of James Ford. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



James Ford, of the city of San Francisco, being duly sworn, deposes 

 and says: 



1. I live in the city of San Francisco, am an American subject, and 

 am a seal-hunter. 



2. I hunted in the vessel "Emma and Louisa" in 1891, and in the 

 "LillieL."inl892. 



3. The catch of the "Emma and Louisa" in 1891 along the coast of 

 Kadiak was 1,073, of whicli I got 133, and lost by sinking 3 seals. The 

 catch of the vessel "Lillie L." this year (1892) was 615, of which I got 

 124, and lost by sinking 5 seals. Tliis was also along this coast. 



4. I always use shot-gun and ritle, but mostly the shot-gun, and I 

 would place the loss from the sinking of seals that had been killed or 

 mortally wounded, for a good average hunter, at 5 in the 100, and not 

 more. Most seals are killed from 10 to 30 yards. 



5. I have got more males than females on this coast. I was on board 

 of the revenue cutter " Corwin" in April last in Neah Bay, and Lieu- 

 tenant McGregor told me that some of the vessels had reported that 

 they had sunk 70 per cent of seals that had been shot, but I knew that 

 this was wrong, and in consequence of this I kept account of nil I got 

 and all I lost, and, therefore, am certain of what I say, and also took 

 notice of the males and females, and one day I got eleven seals, of 

 which nine were males. 



G. Fully half the cows I have got on this coast have neither had pups 

 in them nor were they in milk. 



7. Have got very few old bulls. 



8. I saw more seals this year than I did last, but they appeared to 

 be wilder. 



9. Seals mostly travel north in schools, and these are mixed as to 

 age and sex, but the farther we go north along the coast the more bulls 

 there are, 



10. In schools they are more wary than when singly or in pairs, and 

 I never heard of there being a leader to a school. 



11. I have not been paid anything, nor has anything been promised 

 me, for making this statement, which I have read over and have found 

 correct. 



(Signed) James Ford. 



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

 [SEAL.] (Signed) Chas. A. C. Duisenbeug, 



Notary Public. 



