34 THE DEPONENTS LND IMIEIK EXPERIEN 



James Kean, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: 1 reside in 

 \ ietoria, British Columbia : mj occupation is that 

 ?. Kcan, p. 448. : seaman and seal hunter. 1 lirst weni seal- 



hunting in 1889 on the schooner Oscar and HatUe. 

 * * * In 1890 1 weni out in the Walter Rich. 



Albert Iveetnuek. being duly sworn, deposes and says: 1 am 27 years 



old. Was born and live at Killisnoo. Make her - 



Albert Keetn; ring oil, cul wood, and grov potatoes and turnips. 



The herring oil 1 make 1 sell to other Indians, and 



the potatoes and turnips 1 dispose of to the white men around the 



id. and sell the wood to the lish company. My business calls me 



a\\ ay from this place to the different inlet sand islands around Chatham 



Sound, * * The Indians who buy m\ tish oil belong to tribes 



w ho live long distances a\\ a\ . 



James Kennedy, having been duly sworn, deposes and says: 1 am 



now residing in San Francisco. My occupation 



s.Kei Hi'. i s that of a sailor. 1 went to the North Pacific 



and Bering Sea on the schooner Maggie Ross, of 



which Captain Olsen was master, in the early- part of May. 1884. I 



shipped as oat puller. 



Mike Kethusduek, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Am 50 years 

 old: was born al and reside in Sitka: am by oc- 

 a hunter: have hunted seals every sea- 

 son since I was a small boy. 



George Ketwooschish. being duly sworn, deposes and says: Am 30 

 years of age: born in and have lived at Killisnoo 

 <;<,,. ft . .2?. 251. all my life. Belong to the Thlinket tribe of In- 

 dians. 1 am a herring fisherman by occupation. 

 I make herring oil which I sell to the people o tribes along the 



coast. Tiie\ come a long distance to buy it of me. 1 visit all the is- 

 lands and rocks in following my business, in Chatham Sound. 



Kickiana. being diil.A sworn, deposes and says: That he is 20 years 



oi ace: is a native o( Seehart village, and a sou 

 Etc) 306. of Clat ka-koi. Last year he went north in the 



shooner Ariel, and spent one and one half months 

 in Bering Sea. 



Kickiana understands and speaks English t'airh w 



James Kieman, having been dul\ sworn, deposes and says: 1 am a 



master mariner by profession, and a resident of 



ii'-'- California. 1 lane been engaged in seal hunting 



since 1843. My first voyage was from Newport. 



R. 1.. to the east coast of South America, at Lobos Island, off the 



mouth oi the rivei Platte, al Castillos Island, and on the east coast of 



Patagonia. Afterwards 1 went to the Falkland Islands, to the South 



Shetland Islands, and to the west coast of Patagonia, [n those days 



we killed the seals on land with clubs, but all those rookeries have since 



been destroyed through the constant hunting of the seals. Afterwards 1 



came to California and made my lirst seal hunting voyage in the North 



Pacific in 18(58, and in mc ece yea sin Bering Sea. [have given 



much attention to the study of seal life, as well as to the methods of 



