APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 735 



Subscribed and sworn to before nie, tliis 3rd day of December, A. d. 

 1892. 

 [seal.] (Signed) John Coffee, 



A Notary Fuhlic in and for the City and County of 



ISan Francisco^ iState of (Jalifornia^ 



Deiiositioii of Norman Hodgson. 



Stau'E of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



Norman Hodgson, of Port Townsend, in the State of Washington,, 

 being duly sworn, deposes and says: 



1. I am a resident of Port Townsend, in the State of Washington, 

 but am now living on Powell Street, in this city, and am 24 years of' 

 age, and have beeji engaged in seal-hunting for five seasons as a hunter. 



2. I was in Port Townsend on or about the 1st day of June last, 

 when I was engaged by Cai^tain Tanner, of the Fish Commission 

 steamer "Albatross," to go on board of her as hunter, to illustrate the 

 methods of killing seals such as are practised on the sealing-vessels, to' 

 test the number lost by sinking, to discover the haunts of the seals in 

 the Behring Sea, and generally afford information to those on board 

 the steamer. 



3. We left Port Townsend about the 1st June, and on the steamer, 

 besides the Captain, were the following gentlemen: Professor Ever- 

 man, of AVashington, and Professors Townsend and Alexander, who, I 

 understood, belonged to the steamer " Albatross." We sailed direct 

 for the Behring Sea, and arrived at Unalaska about the 10th June.- 

 We remained there for about a week or ten days, when I was trans- 

 ferred to the "Corwin" with Professor Townsend, Avhilst the other 

 hunter who was with us. Captain Lennon by name, went with Professor 

 Alexander on the " Eush." The " Corwin " and " Kush " are two rev- 

 enue-cutters belonging to the United States. We then went to the 

 islands — that is, the Pribyloff Islands. The first seals killed were' 

 about 10 miles south-west of St. George Island, on the 10th August, and I 

 got four. They were all females in milk. On the following day, namely, 

 the 11th, I got two seals about 100 miles west by south of St. Paul 

 Island; both were females, and I think both were in milk. On the 12th 

 August I got two seals rather closer to the island, and in about the 

 same direction — one was a cow in milk, and the other a bull about 2. 

 years old. On the 13th August I got eight about 10 miles about south- 

 south-west of the north-west rookery, of which six were cows, and 

 about three of these cows had milk; one of the bulls Avas an old "wig," 

 and the other a 2 year-old. On the 21st August 1 got two, both barren 

 cows, I used a shot-gun altogether, and killed the seals all the way 

 from 10 to 30 yards. Professor Townsend was not present during any 

 of my seal-hunting trips. I had the ordinary sealing-boat,.witli a boat- 

 puller and steerer. I lost one seal by sinking during the time I was 

 sealing — this one I shot at a long distance, from 45 to 50 yards, and it 

 had sunk before we could get up with the boat. Some seals I could 

 not get to sink, although I tried for several minutes to get them to do 

 so, whilst the big bull Avhich I killed on the 13th would have sunk very 

 quickly, and it had started to sink when I gaffed it. 



4. At Unalaska I was jjlaced on board the seized vessel " Henrietta" 

 with Lieutenant Johnson, of the "Corwin," to proceed with her to 

 Sitka. She had at the time of seizure about 400 skins, and on our 



