THE DEPONENTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCE. 75 



Hish Yulla, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am about 60 

 years old, and am a native Indian of the Makali 

 tribe, and reside on the Neah Bay Reservation, Hish Yulla, p. 397. 

 in the county of Clallam, State of Washington, 

 United States of America. I have been a hunter and fisherman all 

 my life. Years ago I used to hunt seals in the straits of San Juan de 

 Fuca in the winter time, and in the summer time. I would hunt them 

 in canoes from 10 to 20 miles off Cape Flattery, and of late years I 

 hunt in a small canoe, and put it on a schooner, and go up and down 

 the coast between the mouth of the Columbia River and Barclay Sound. 



George Zammitt, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am 31 years 

 of age. I reside in San Francisco. I am a ma- 

 chinist by occupation. I made a sealing voyage Geo. Zammitt, p. 507. 

 on the schooner Seventy-six about eight years ago. 

 Captain Potts was master of her. 



Pud Zaotchnoi, a native of Amlia Island, of the Aleutian chain, 40 

 years of age, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 

 I am second chief of the natives of the settle- Pud Zaotchnoi, p. 213. 

 ment of Atka, Atka Island, Alaska, and am a 

 hunter of fur-bearing animals, principally the sea-otter and fox; I have 

 never hunted the fur-seal. 



Thomas Zolnoks, being duly sworn, deposes and says : I am a native 

 Makah Indian and reside on the reservation at 

 Keah Bay, State of Washington, United States Thos. Zolnoks, p. 398. 

 of America. I am 24 years old, and am by occu- 

 pation a hunter and fisherman. I have been engaged in hunting seals 

 ever since I was 9 or 10 years old. Until about 1880 I hunted seats in 

 large canoes, in which I always used the spear. In the last eight or 

 ten years I have hunted for seals in small canoes carried on schooners, 

 and sealed off Cape Flattery from 20 to 75 miles, and as far south as 

 the Columbia River, and north up to the passage into Bering Sea, but 

 have never hunted for seals in those waters. 



