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these seals have pups, but I do know that every season, towards the 

 close, some years in Juue and in other years July and August, there 

 are plenty of young - pup seals taken with their mothers. The Indians 

 invariably kill the pups when they can, as their bleating cries alarm the 

 older seals, who will keep out of the way of the hunters. Young seals 

 taken alive from their mothers are a matter of every day occurrence in 

 June and July. These young seals are strong and lively, and will swim 

 as soon as taken from out of their mothers. I had one brought to me 

 last summer by one of our sealing schooners. I fed it with milk from a 

 nurse bottle, and it grew finely. I kept it in the yard, and it would 

 swim round in a tub of water, and I used to take it to have a swim in 

 the bay. It was very tame, but one day it bit me severely and I told 

 an Indian to kill it." 



March 29. I went to the house of Captain John, an old chief, now 

 blind, and met there Quistoh, or Kicistoh, a chief of the Nittinat In- 

 dians on west coast of Vancouver Island, B. C, and Cedakanim, a chief 

 of the Clyoquot Indians, northwest of Barclay Sound, B. C. 



Captain John says : " The fur seals have their young ones in the salt- 

 water, but I don't know were. The hair seals (Karschoive) have their 

 young ones in the caves about Cape Flattery, but the fur seal (Kaith- 

 ladoos) somewhere on the ocean. The Indians think they have them 

 on the kelp beds, like the sea otter." 



Kwistoh says : " Many years ago, my father and some other Mttinats 

 were blown off to sea in their canoes; they went a great way off, a great 

 way toward the setting sun. It was warm weather, about your 4th of 

 July, I think ; they saw many fur seals ; the sea was full of them, and 

 they bad their little pups with them, and the little ones made so much 

 noise that the Indians could not kill any of the big ones. We all think 

 the fur seal (Kaithladoos) has its young ones born in the water." 



Cedakanim says: "We think the fur seal has its young ones in the 

 ocean, but I don't know where. I know the old seals b} T the color of 

 their whiskers, and I know the last year's pups, and I know the little 

 pups, which come with their mothers, which are too small to be good 

 fur. Where do these little seals come from ? I don't know, but I believe, 

 as all the Indians do, that they are born in the water or among the 

 kelp." 



Peter, chief of Makah Indian police, says : " The fur seals all come 

 from the south. In the spring they are plenty, but when the hot 

 weather comes they go off west; but they do not all go, because fur seal 

 can be seen all the time along the coast, but they are shy, and we don't 

 hunt them. I don't know where they have their young ones, but there 

 are plenty of little seals here every summer." 



March 30. Youaithl, or old doctor Makah, residing at Neah Bay, says : 

 " We all think the Kaithladoos (fur seal) has young ones in the water. I 

 have killed many fur seals with young ones in them, just ready to be 

 born, but they were no good, and I generally knocked them on the head, 



