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ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Sometimes a few seals follow schools of 

 herring into [Barclay] Sound and go out 

 hurriedly. On such occasions a few are 

 killed. — (United States Case, p. 305.) 



I told him [United States Agent] Ibad 

 seen seals inside of Barclay Sound, and 

 had killed them as far uj) as "Turn 

 Point," and even farther up the canal. I 

 told him that when the bait would come 

 in sometimes I would go out and get 

 three seals in a little while, and have 

 gone a mile and a-half outside of Village 

 Island, when the herring have been 

 plenty, and seen lots, and that I have 

 seen a canoe get from 15 to 20 a day 

 there Seals come into Bar- 

 clay Sound every year, sometimes more 

 than others; the more iish that come in 

 the more seals come. — (British Counter- 

 Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 150.) 



Other questions referring to numbers of seals lost by sinking, composition of 

 catch, &c., were asked Olat-ka-koi by the United States Agent, but bis replies do 

 uot appear in the United States Case. — (Sec British Counter-Case.) 



"Dick " or Ehenchesut. — As to liuutinsf on coast: 



I told him [United States Agent] we 

 got skins, every season inside of Village 

 Island, in liarclay Sound; I could not 

 have told him anything else, for I told 

 him I had got them as far up as Ecool. 



I told him [United States Agent] that 

 our tribe and the Opichissets manned 

 thirty canoes to bunt seals from the shore 

 this last season. He never asked me how 

 many skins the whole tribe had got, but 

 how many one canoe would get from 

 the shore in a season, and I told him 30. 

 He then asked bow many one canoe would 

 get from a schooner in a season, and I 

 said about 40 bunting otf the coast in a 



schooner I did not tell him 



I have been bunting oft" Cape Flattery 

 this year, lor I have not been sealing 

 there for three years or more. — (British 

 Counter-Case, Apiiendix, vol. ii, p. 155.) 



Ehenchesut further testifies as to no decrease in the number of seals, composition 

 of catch, &c., and that questions were asked him on these points by the United 

 States Agents, but no reference to them appears in the United States Case. He is 

 stated in the United States Case to be a Chief, but testifies that be never was one, 

 and never said he was. He was paid 5 dollars for his evidence by the United States 

 Agent, and each of the men with him 1 dollar. 



To his knowledge, no seals ever came 

 inside Barclay Sound, and that he never 

 caught any inside, and, moreover, he and 

 his friends never heard of any entering 



these waters. 

 155 He states that during the last 



live months twenty-live canoes 

 belonging to the village, manned by fifty 

 men, have been engaged in sealing oft' the 

 coast of Vancouver Island. They ob- 

 tained in this time 10 skins per capita, in 



all, 500 skins The fifty men 



who went out from this village joined 

 schooners, two in number, and the seals 

 were caught about 20 miles to southward 

 and westward of Cape Flattery. Of the 

 number caught, 300 were caught and 

 killed by the natives of this village. — 

 (United States Case, pp. 306, 307.) 



Imihap. — As to hunting on coast ; 



Certifies as to evidence given by Ehen- 

 chesut to United States being true. — 

 (United States Case, p, 308.) 



Ohileta. — As to hunting on coast. 



Certifies as to evidence given by Ehen- 

 chesut being true. — (United States Case, 

 p. 308.) 



[See testimony of Ehenchesut above.] 



Certifies to evidence given by Ehen- 

 chesut to Great Britain being true. — 

 (British Counter-Case, Appendix, vol. ii, 

 p. 156.) 



Told the United States Agent that in a 

 season a canoe would get about 100 seals. 

 He told him that about 300 seals had 

 been taken by sealing oft" shore. "I 

 never told the old man that seals did not 

 come in to Barclay Sound, for we kill 

 them every year away up, as far as Bird 

 Rocks." — (British Counter-Case, Appen- 

 dix, vol. ii, J). 145.) 



