664 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



Mr. McGuire. What was the next outdoor work that you did ? 



Mr. Gallagher. I do not think we did any further outdoor work. 



Mr. McGuire. What I am trying to get at is this, when did you 

 weigh these skins ? 



Mr. Gallagher. When? 



Mr. McGuire. Yes. 



Mr. Gallagher. Well, we weighed those skins on the 29th of July. 

 That was indoors; that was in the salt house. 



Mr. McGuire. I see. 



The Chairman. Just one moment. I want to call your atten- 

 tion, simply to facilitate matters, to hearing No. 1, on page 26, where 

 this is recorded day by day as they went along. Perhaps it will be 

 a guide to you in asking questions. 



Mr. McGuire. I would rather ask him about these things, because 

 this is testimony and that is not testimony. 



The Chairman. You have been asking him what he did, and it 

 might be well for him to take his report and see. 



Mr. McGuire. I would be glad to have him do so. 



Mr. Gallagher. I think we are down to the final day. 



Mr. McGuire. The weighing of the skins? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. You may proceed in your own way and tell just 

 what was done with respect to the weighing, the manner in which it 

 was done, and so forth, and the conversations that were had prior to 

 and during the weighing of the skins. 



Mr. Gallagher. That will practically be a repetition of what I 

 said before. Mr. Elliott had prepared a form of procedure, and that 

 morning after breakfast, on tne 29th of July, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Clark, 

 Mr. Hat ton, Mr. Whitney, and myself, together with Mr. Lembkey, 

 and Mr. Clark's son, Donald, who, however, were only there a very 

 few minutes, went to the salt house and Mr. Elliott had the same 

 interpreter read this form to the natives, this form of procedure which 

 is copied in the report. 



Mr. McGuire. You found the skins in salt? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire . And you received information, in a general way, 

 that they were killed, I think, on the 7th of July? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. Mr. Elliott directed the natives to extract the skins 

 from the salt ? 



Mr. Gallagher. Xo; Mr. Elliott had this form of procedure read 

 to them by the interpreter and they proceeded to do the work as 

 directed in the form of procedure. 



Mr. McGuntE. They took the skins from the salt in the salt house? 



Mr. Gallagher. Yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. About how many of them were at work? 



Mr. Gallagher. I should think 10 men were there engaged in that. 



Mr. McGuire. When they took them out you say they shook the 

 salt from the skins. What was the purpose of that — do you know? 



Mr. Gallagher. No. I did not mean to say that it was delib- 

 erately shaken off, but the skins were taken out and whatever salt 

 there was on them dropped off. I do not recall, however, that they 

 shook the salt off. 



