APPENDIX TO COUNTEE-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 739 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 3rd day of December, A. d. 

 1892. 

 [SEAL.] • (Signed) Lee D. Craig, 



Notary Public for the City and County of San Francisco, 



State of California, 316, Montgomery Street. 



Deposition of Ban A. Leicis. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 

 Dan A. Lewis, being duly sworn, dej)oses and says : 



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

 sealing in 1889; have hunted on the American coasts into Behring Sea, 

 on the Japanese and Russian coasts. 



2. In 1889 I hunted on the " Undaunted," in 1890 I stayed ashore, in 

 1891 I was on the "City of San Diego," and in 1892 I hunted from the 

 "Allie I. Alger." 



3. Oji the coast, on the "Undauni'cd," we got, I think, 464 seals, of 

 which I got 82. In the "City of San Diego," along this coast, we got 

 512, and oft" shore, within 20 miles of Copper Island, we got 032. We 

 lowered our boats within 00 to 20 miles oft' shore, and then hunted. 

 My individual catch this season on the "San Diego" was 270. This 

 year, in the "Allie I. Alger," we hunted for a short time on the coast, 

 got 28 seals, and proceeded directly to the Japan coast, where we got 

 about 1,490. On the way back we entered the Behring Sea and got 114 

 seals, when we were told that the sea was closed, and we left St. Paul's 

 Island on the 14th August. My total take on this trip was 386. 



4. I know that in killing those 386 seals I lost exactly 6 that I had 

 killed and sunk. A mortally wounded seal does not often get away. 

 It is to my interest to keep count of the seals I lost, and the above 

 are the facts of the case. From my own experience this year and the 



other years I have hunted I don't think I ought to lose more than 

 137 3 out of every 100 from dying, or that I have reason to think sink 



from being wounded. If a man has a light boat he ought never 

 to lose a seal, for if a seal is crippled, and can keep away from me, he 

 will live. 



5. I kill all my seals with a shot-gun, and never use a rifle. We 

 shoot seals at an average distance of 25 yards, and have killed a seal 

 and got him at 75 yards. 



0. We can shoot just as much as we want to when sealing, and there 

 is just as much ammunition used in practice and at birds as there is in 

 killing seals. 



7. There are more seals now than when I first went hunting. I 

 notice it wherever I go. Seals, I think, are well able to take care of 

 themselves, and when they travel in schools, as they mostly do, it is 

 very rarely that we can get more than one, as they are very watchful. 

 I never heard of a leader to a school, but always noticed that there 

 was a look-out on watch. 



8. I cannot say anything about the proportion of males that were to 

 females in my catch, but we don't get many old bulls, perhai^s three or 

 four in a season. 



9. I have never seen seals cohabiting in the water. 



10. In travelling in schools I have seen all sizes and ages of seals, 

 but I cannot say anything about the sexes. 



11. I have killed barren cows, but it is a matter I have not noticecl 

 very closely. 



