THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 13 



clusively, I used to hunt and capture seals about 20 miles in the Strait 

 of San Juan de Fuca. I first went sealing in the Bering Sea in the 

 James G. Swan in 1889, and went again on the schooner Lottie in 1891. 



Clahowto, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a resident 

 of the village Mchulet, Barclay Sound, and that 

 the evidence given by Weckenunesch is true. Clahowto, p. 312. 



James Claplanhoo, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am about 

 43 years old, and a native Makah Indian. I re- 

 side on the Xeah Bay Reservation, county of Clal- /«■ Claplanhoo, p. 381. 

 lam, State of Washington, United States of Amer- 

 ica. I am, by occupation, a hunter and fisherman. I own the schooner 

 Lottie, which is of about 28 tons burden. I bought the said schooner 

 about seven years ago. I have been engaged in hunting seals about 

 twenty-four years. In my early days I hunted seals in canoes and 

 with spears in the Strait of San Juan de Fuca, and about 80 miles off 

 Cape Flattery. 



Clappa, first being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is 50 years 

 of age; a native and resident of Aguis; up to two 

 years ago he hunted seals ; his last hunt took place Clappa, p. 307. 

 in a schooner manned by twenty men and ten ca- 

 noes; hunted two months and caught 200 seals. Certifies evidence 

 given by Dick or Ehenchesut to be true. 



Harry IS". Clark, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: lam 

 32 years old, a native of Vermont, and now a res- 

 ident of Vina, Tehama County, Cal., and by oc- Harry N. Clark, p. 158. 

 cupation foreman of vineyard cultivation at 

 Governor Stanford's Vina Ranch. 



From 1884 to 1889, inclusive, I was in the employ of the Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company of San Francisco, on St. George Island, Alaska, en- 

 gaged through each sealing season as " boss" of a gang of seal-hunters, 

 and in the winter, excepting that of 1880 and 1887, as teacher and 

 storekeeper on that island. 



My work as the leader of the "sealing gang" gave me as perfect 

 opportunity as could be had for studying the habits and peculiarities 

 of the seal and determining the best manner of caring for them. 



The condition of seal life was the principal topic of discussion and 

 thought during the summer months, and the only one of particular in- 

 terest. All became familiar with it, and watched every change in the 

 breeding grounds or number of killable seals as carefully as a farmer 

 watches the increase or decrease of his flocks and herds. 



William Clark, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at 

 Klinquan and have lived there ever since; have 

 hunted fur-seal nine years in Dixon's Entrance and Wm. Clark, p. 203. 

 off Prince of Wales Island, in and between March 

 and June. 



Clat-ka-koi, of the village of Toquat (Barclay Sound), and one of the 

 chiefs thereof, being duly sworn, deposes and 

 says : That he is 50£ years of age and belongs to ciat-ka-lcoi, p. 305. 

 the villages of Toquat and Sechart, at present 

 residing in Toquat, and is a native of the village of Sechart * * • 



