316 CAUSE. 



Years ago we could see seals all over the water. They are not so 

 plentiful now. They have been growing less and 



lshka,p. 388. less ever since the white man came in and began 



to hunt them with guns, about six or seven years 

 ago, and so many vessels went into the business. 



My idea is that there are too many camp-fires around on the coast of 

 Alaska that scares the seal out to sea. The seal 



Jack Johnson, p. 282. smell the smoke and won't come near the land; 

 and there are a large number of people shooting 

 seal, which scares them away also. 



Johnnie Johnton, p. 283. There are too many schooners hunting seal off 

 Prince of Wales Island, and it is hard for In- 

 dians to get any in canoes. 



p. KaMidday, p. 2G1. Have noticed that seal are decreasing very fast 



the last few years along the coast, caused, I think, 



by pelagic hunting. * * * 



Think the seals are most all killed by the pelagic seal hunters in the 



waters of the North Pacific Ocean, so far from the land that the Indian 



hunters have no chance to get any in canoes, as he only goes a short 



distance from the shore. 



Saml. Eahoorof,p. 214. Do not know why the numbers of the fur seals 

 seen about these islands are now less than in for- 

 mer years. 



,.,._, ^ I think the seal are about as plentiful along this 



^Phthp Eashevaroff, p. ^^ but mu( , h more gcarce ferther wegt The 



cause of this scarcity is too much pelagic hunting. 



When I was a young man the seal were very plentiful around here, 

 but since the schooners began hunting them they 

 King Easkwa, p. 295. have become very scarce. The white hunter de- 

 stroyed the sea-otter and will soon destroy the 

 seal. I don't like to see the schooners around here hunting seal, for 

 they kill everything they see, and unless they are stopped the seal will 

 soon be all gone. The sea otter is already gone. 



Seals have been growing scarce the last five years, since the white 

 man began hunting them with schooners, and if 



Jim Easooh, p. 296. they are not stopped the seal will soon be all 

 gone. 



Seal have decreased very rapidily along this coast in the last three 

 or four years. The decrease is caused, I think, by 



Mike Eethusdnck, p. 262. schooners using sliotguns and rifles and killing 

 mostly female seals. 



Einkooga,p. 240. The reason of the scarcity is, I think, that there 



are too many white hunters sealing in the open 

 waters. 



Seal are becoming very scarce on the coast. The reason they are 



becoming so scarce is that hunters shoot them 

 0. KUnaneck,p. 263. with guug and km CQWg ^^ pup# 



