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Seal have become very scarce the last few years. Martin Singay, p. 268. 

 Too many white men are engaged in killing seal. 



Have noticed a large decrease in seal the last Jack Sitka, j>. 269. 

 three years, caused, I think, by pelagic sealing in 

 Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. 



Since the white man has been hunting seal with schooners they have 

 become very scarce, and Indians are obliged to 

 go a long way and stop away from home a long Thomas Skowl, p. 300. 

 time in order to get any, and after being away 



there four or five days they frequently return without killing one seal, 

 they have become so scarce. 



There are no seal left now; they are most all killed off. The last 

 ten years the seal have been decreasing very fast, 

 ever since the white men with schooners began to G-eo. Skultka, p. 290. 

 hunt them. 



Seal have been growing scarce along the coast the last four years. 

 Think there are too many schooners engaged in ,, m , 77 ,, 

 sealing in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering 2 ^-Thlkahdaynahkee,p. 

 Sea. 



Have noticed a large decrease the last four years. I think that pelagic 

 seal hunting in Bering Sea is the cause the seal _, .. __ . 

 becoming scarce along the coast. 21 ° harhe Tlalcsatan ' *' 



Have heard all the Indians of different tribes say that seal are be- 

 coming very scarce in the last three or four years. 

 They also say that unless the schooners are stopped Twongkwa k, p. 246. 

 from sealing in Bering Sea and the North Pacific 



Ocean the seal will all be gone, and none will be left for the Indians or 

 anyone else. The seal have become so scarce of late years that I don't 

 know much about them. 



During the last five or six years seals have decreased in numbers 

 very rapidly. A great many of the white men 

 are poor hunters, and lose a great many of the John Tysum, p. 394. 

 seals that they shoot. They shoot, and shoot, and 



shoot, and don't get any seals, and that makes them wild, so that an 

 Indian can't get near them with a spear. 



Have noticed the seal have been decreasing along the coast the last 

 four years. Think the cause of the decrease is 

 that there are too many schooners engaged in j a s. Unatajim, p. 272. 

 pelagic sealing in Bering Sea. 



Last year was a very bad season. The Indians think scarcity of 

 seals is due to the method of hunting them adopted 

 by the whites, by which the seals are scared Francis Vcrbeke,p.3ii. 

 away. 



Have noticed the seal are decreasing very fast, particularly the 

 last four years, caused by the indiscriminate kill- 

 ing of seal in the waters of the North Pacific Charlie Wank, p. 273, 

 Ocean and Bering Sea. 



