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did SO, and he told me to return the next day at 10 o'clock and sign it. 

 I did go the next day, when a person met me at the door of the hotel 

 and postponed me until the following day, when the same person whom 

 I had met on the previous day told me that they did not like my evi- 

 dence. I asked for the pay I had been promised, which he would not 

 give, but offered me half-a dollar, which I would not accept. I told him 

 lie ought to pay me for my time and he said: "You don't do much 

 here anyway." He did not ask me to sign my evidence, as he said it 

 was no use to them. He asked me whether there were more male than 

 female seals killed, and I told him, to the best of my judgment, most 

 males. He asked me if we went near the Pribyloff Islands, and I said 

 no, we never sighted land after we got into the sea. He asked if the 

 Indians used guns. I said sometimes. He asked me if the Indians 

 lost many seals by spearing them. I said no, I thought not. My 

 experience of sealing is one season in Behring Sea in 1890, and one 

 season on the coast of Vancouver Island about ten years ago. I did 

 not at the time study the habits of seals closely. 



(Signed) E. Eustace. 



Sworn at Victoria, British Columbia, this 28th day of April, 1892, 

 before me. 



(Signed) E. B. Marvin, J. P. 



Affidavit of William Albert Short. 



William Albert Short makes oath and says: 



I am a painter, and reside in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1890 I 

 was out sealing in the schooner " Maggie Mac." I was a boat-puller. 



1 never made it my business to study the habits of seals closely, but 

 did so as much as any other sealer. On or about the 20th of this month 

 a man whom I know by sight about town, but do not know his name, 

 called at my shop and said that there was a man at the Driard who 



wanted to get information about sealing. He did not say who 

 182 the man was, and I did not know. I went there, and a gentle- 

 man, who, I was told afterwards, was Major Williams, asked me 

 questions about the sealing business. He asked me whether we got 

 most male or female seals. I told him that in some places we got most 

 males and in others most females. He asked in what portions of 

 Behring Sea we caught seals, and how far from land. He named cer- 

 tain places along the coast, and I told him whether we had or not been 

 there. The man who told me to go there informed me that I would get 



2 dollars for going, and he was to have 50 cents for each person he 

 brought in to give evidence. When I had finished my evidence I 

 signed it, and was paid 2 dollars. I was riot asked to swear to it. 



(Signed) W. A. Short. 



Sworn to before me at Victoria, British Columbia, this 28th day of 

 April, 1892. 



(Signed) E. B. Marvin, J. P, 



