318 CAUSE. 



When I was a young man seal were very plentiful off Prince of Wales 

 Island and Dixons Entrance, but since the 

 Naslitou,p. 298. schooners have begun hunting seal they have be- 



come very scarce, and Indians now are obliged to 

 go a long ways to kill any, and sometimes they will hunt tor days with- 

 out getting a seal. 



Since the white men with schooners began to hunt seal, the last five 

 or six years, seals have become very scarce, and 

 Smith Natch, p. 298. it is hard for the Indians to get any now. They 

 have to go a long way and hunt a long time in or- 

 der to get one or two seals. 



The last four or five years seal have been growing scarcer every year, 

 owing, I think, to too many white men hunting seals 



DanNathlan,p.286. in schooners off Queen Charlotte Islands and in 

 Dixons. 



I think the reason of the seal becoming so scarce is that there 

 are too many white men hunting seal in the 



Nevhantake, p. 211. Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean and it should 

 be stopped. 



Seal are not near as plenty as they used to be; too many hunters are 

 Jas. Neishkaitk, p. 287. catching them and indiscriminately killing them. 



When I was a young man seals were much more plentiful than they 



are now. The last three years, since the schoon- 



Ntkla-ah, p. 288. ers began hunting seals, they have become very 



scarce. It is hard for the Indians to get any now, 



and this year they have killed but two. 



The Indian fur-seal hunters of my people all tell me that the fur-seal 

 are becoming very scarce. Too many white men 



Peter Olsen, p. 288. are killing them all the time, and they kill cows 

 with pup as well as other kinds. I am the chief 

 of my people, and they all tell me what they know. 



Seal are getting very scarce along the coast, 

 Eondtus, p. 242. caused by the indiscriminate slaughter of seals 



in the open waters. 



Have noticed the seal are getting scarce the last i\^v years. The 

 cause of the scarcity is, I think, too many schoon- 

 Abel Ryan,p.2dd. erg i milt j ug tllom off p r i uce f Wales Island. 



Since the schooners have hunted seal off the Prince of Wales Island the 

 seals have become scarce, and it is hard for the 



Jack Shnoky, p. 289. Indians to get any in canoes. In former times 

 they used to get plenty. 



The disappearance of the fur-seal is due to the killing by pelagic seal- 

 hunters, who appear in large numbers off this 

 Alexander Shyha,p. 226. part of the coast, and the scarcity of the fur seals 

 is in proportion to the number of vessels engaged 

 iu seal-hunting. 



