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and if they could get a certain amount of flesh meat Or seal meat, and 

 could be offered encouragement, they might get along. 



Q. I infer that morally and intellectually these natives are superior 

 to the natives of the seal islands? — A. I do not speak from personal 

 observation, but only from such information as I have been able to get 

 from reports in Congressional documents and from travelers. I think 

 they are a docile race, capable of elevation and guidance, and a race 

 capable of being elevated above the tendencies of savage life and dense 

 immorality. 



Q. You'think one valuable factor in that problem would be to allow the 

 women on the Pribylov Islands to marry these Aleuts and let the Aleuts 

 thereby acquire a domicile on the islands and a participation in the ben- 

 efits of the seal business ? — A. I consider that these men would be de- 

 sirable inhabitants to introduce upon the seal islands, and they should 

 be permitted to marry there and have a share in those benefits. This 

 fund of 40 cents per skin was fixed bj^ the company with the sanction 

 of the Treasury Department. If the seal business and the seaotter 

 traftic should both disappear, that would be the end of the race. 



TESTIMONY OF DR. H. H. McINTYRE. 



Dr. H. H. MclNTYRE, called and examined. 



Q. Please state your full name and occupation. — A. H. H. Mclntyre; 

 I am superintendent of the seal-fisheries for the Alaska Commercial 

 Company. 



Q. Where do you make your headquarters? — A. On St. Paul Island 

 during the seahng season. 



Q. How long have you been connected with the Alaska Commercial 

 Company ? — A. Since the beginning of the lease in 1870. 



Q. How many of those years or seasons have you spent upon those 

 islands ? — A. I have spent one entire year and every sealing season, with 

 the exception of three, during that time. 



Q. Had you ever been to Alaska before you went into the employ of 

 the Alaska Commercial Company ? — A. Yes, sir ; I went there in the 

 summer of 1868. 



Q. In what capacity ? — A. As special Treasury agent. 



Q. What parts of Alaska have you visited? — A. IS^early every part, 

 from the most southerly to Bering ::^ea, and up as far as St. Michaels; 

 and also to the mouth of the Yukon Eiver. 



Q. Have you been as far as Attoo ? — A. I was there in the summer 

 of 1869. 



Q. Have you visited many of the Aleutian Islands, or any them ? — 

 A. I have touched at many of them. 



Q. Have you been at Kodiak ? — A. Repeatedly. 



Q. Have you been in southeastern Alaska? — A. Yes; but not since 

 the spring of 1870. 



Q. Did you have an opportunity to examine the condition of the na- 

 tives in other parts of Alaska ? — A. Yes, sir ; it was a part of my duty, 

 under my instructions from the Treasury Dej)artment, to examine into 

 and report upon their condition. 



Q. What do you say as to the difference in the condition of those 

 people then and now ? — A. I think their condition has vastly improved at 

 all points, and particularly at the seal islands, wheie the company has 

 had exclusive control. W^hen I first went to these islands 1 found them 

 living half underground, in a semi-barbarous condition. At preseut 



