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years the seal have been decreasing very fast — ever since the white men 

 with schooners began to hunt them. (George Skultka.) 



Seal have been growing scarce along the coast the last fonr years. 

 Think there are too many schooners engaged in sealing in the North 

 Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. (M. Thlkahdaynahkee.) 



Have noticed a large decrease the last four years. I think that 

 pelagic sealing in Bering Sea is the cause of the seal becoming scarce 

 along the coast. (Charlie Tlaksatan.) 



Have heard all the Indians of different tribes say that seal are becom- 

 ing very scarce in the last three or fonr years. They also say that unless 

 the schooners are stopped from sealing in Bering Sea and the Korth 

 Pacific Ocean the seal will all be gone, and none will be left for the 

 Indians or anyone else. The seal have become so scarce of late years 

 that I don't know much about them. (Twongkwak.) 



During the last five or six years seals have decreased in numbers 

 very rapidly. A great many of the white men are poor hunters and 

 lose a great many of the seals that they shoot. They shoot, and shoot, 

 and shoot, and don't get any seals, and that makes them wild, so that 

 an Indian can't get near them with a spear. (John Tysum.) 



Have noticed the seal have been decreasing along the coast the last 

 fonr years. Think the cause of the decrease is that there are too many 

 schooners engaged in pelagic sealing in Bering Sea. (James Unatajim.) 



Last year was a very bad season. The Indians think scarcity of seals 

 is due to the method of hunting them adopted by the whites, by which 

 the seals are scared away. (Francis Verbeke.) 



Have noticed the seal are decreasing very fast, particularly the last 

 four years, caused by the indiscriminate killing of seal in the waters of 

 the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. (Charlie Wank.) 



So many schooners and white men are hunting them with guns all 

 along the coast that they are getting all killed off. (Watkins.) 



Formerly the Indians hunted them for food, but nowadays white men 

 and Indians hunt them for their fur, and they are rapidly diminishing 

 in number. (Weckenunesch.) 



Seals were always plenty in the Straits of San Juan de Fuca and 

 along the coast until the white hunter came here and commenced shoot- 

 ing them some six or eight years ago; since that time they have 

 decreased very rapidly. (Charley White.) 



Seals are becoming very scarce since the white men began hunting 

 them in schooners. (Billy Williams.) 



Seals have become scarce the last three or four years, and the cause 

 of it is, I think, the indiscriminate killing of seals in the water. (Fred 

 Wilson.) 



Seals are not near so plenty as they were seven or eight years ago. 

 I think the cause of this is that they have been hunted so much by 

 white hunters, who use shotguns and rifles. (Wispoo.) 



Have noticed the seal are decreasing very fast, owing to so many 

 schooners hunting seals in the waters of the North Pacific Ocean and 

 Bering Sea. (Michael Wooskort.) 



The seal, like the sea otter, are becoming very scarce. I think if the 

 schooners Avere prohibited from taking seal in Bering Sea and along the 



