332 FUR-SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 



last summer, and the marauders would have every reason to suppose 

 that they could violate them again with impunity. 



Q. You think that about one in five is the extent of the seal that are 

 cai)tured after beiug shot in the water ? — A. I think so. 



Q. Look at that paper and tell the committee what it is [giving the 

 witness the following paper] : 



Extracts from the log of the schooner Angel Dolly, Tcept hy Capt. Alfred N. Tulles, who 

 was accidentally killed ly his own hand on the 26th of July, la87, near Otter Island. 



July 4, 1887. — Hove to 30 miles southwest of St. George Island. At 1.30 out boats. 

 Got 5 seals. 



July 5, 1887.— Out boats at 6.30 a. m. Returned at 11.15 p. m. with 11 seals, one 

 boat getting 6. 



July 9, 1887. — I am now on the hunting-ground, but keep sail on the vessel as we 

 may pick up a sleeping seal. 



July 11, 1887.— Caught 7 seals. 



July 13, 1887. — Caught 12 seals ; they were around the vessel as thick as bees (the 

 seal). Had it been clear we would have caught 100 easy. 



July 16, 1887. — Saw 3 sleeping seals from the vessel. Got boat over and got thera. 

 I have not seen the sun for nine days, tiierefore I have had no observations, yet I 

 know that I am not over 14 miles from St. George Island. 



July 17, 1887. — Out boats at 10.30 a. m. The seals were around the vessel in hun- 

 dreds. The boats would not go any distance from the vessel. Had they gone away 

 they could have caught 200 or 300 seals. They were afraid of the fog, yet I told them 

 that it would clear up, which it did at 3.30 p.m., and continued thus all the rest of 

 the day. They are the hardest set of hunters that were ever in Bering Sea, who 

 caught 20 seals and used 250 rounds of ammunition. They get 1 out of every 10 

 they fire at. Well, I will never be caught with such a crowd again. The head hunter 

 fired 100 shells and got 6 seals. The vessel is lying between the Islands of St. Paul 

 and St. George. Just as soon as the fog clears off the laud I will have to move, as I 

 might have the cutter after me. I came here to get a load of seals, and, by God, if I 

 had :iny men with me, I would get them, too. They are all a set of curs; genuine 

 ones, too. 



July 21, 1887. — Out boats at 6.30 a. m. coming back to the vessel at 9 p. m. One 

 boat returned at 7 p. m. This was the head hunter. He is last out and first back 

 always ; caught 30 seals; one boat got 14. This is the best day's work we have done 

 yet. From the amount of growling among the boat-pullers, I conclude that they tired 

 at and missed nearly 200 seals. They had 100 loaded shell each when they left the 

 ship, and when they came back all were emptied, so they did some tall firing. 



July 23, 1887. — To-day I asked Daniel McCue, boat-puller for Charles Lo<lerstrom, 

 how it was that his boat got only 9 seals. I told him that I had seen 40 sleeping seals 

 from the vessel, and that he must have seen more as he was pulling about. His 

 answer was that if he had a man that knew how to shoot that the boat could not carry 

 all the seals that were missed. Why captain, said he, it is enough to discourage a 

 man. You pull up to a sleeping seal to within 10 feet, fire at him and see the shot go 



6 feet the other side of him. I then asked J. Linqui-st, puller for boat two. He said, 

 captain, don't ask me how many we have seen, but ask me how many we missed, and 

 I will tell you. I asked him the above question ; he said 100. I now asked Joe Spooner 

 the same questions as above; his answer was, we only want hunters, and wo would 

 be going home now with 1,500 skins at the very least. 



July 24, 1887. — As tine a day as was ever seen in San Francisco. A flat calm with 

 the sea as smooth as glass. Got out the boats at 6.30 a. m. ; coming back at 7.30 with 

 14 seals. Why! One boat with an ordinary hunter could get that many without go- 

 ing 100 yards from the .ship. I killed two inside of ten minutes, and it was then 

 nearly dark. 



July 25, 1887. — Nice weather. Out boats at 7 p. m. Came back with 4 seals. Big 

 catch. 



July 26, 1887.— There were thousands of seals around the vessel. I shot and killed 



7 from the vessel, but only got 1, through the tardiness of the hunters. At 4.30 I put 

 the boats out; came back at 7.30 with 1 seal. The water was fairly covered with 

 seals, yet they only caught 1. • 



The 'log closes on the 28th of July, 1887, on which day the captain was killed and 

 his vessel seized for violation of the revenue laws. 



His signals were: (1) Come back to the vessel; (2) want a boat for dead seal; (3) 

 keep near vessel. Bad weather or fog ; (4) cutter in sight. 



A. This paper is a transcript of the log-book of the schooner Angel 

 Dolly, captured by Mr. Tingle in July, 1887. 



