320 CAUSE. 



So many schooners and white men are hunting 

 Watkins, p. 395. them with guns all along the coast that they are 



getting all killed off. 



Formerly the Indians hunted them for food, but nowadays white men 

 and Indians hunt them for their fur, and they are 

 Weckenunesoh, p. 311. rapidly diminishing in number. 



Seal were always plenty in the Strait of San Juan de Fuca and along 



the coast until the white hunter came here and 



Charley Wliite, p. 396. commenced shooting them some six or eight years 



ago. Since that time they have decreased very 



rapidly. 



Billy Williams, p. 301. Seal are becoming very scarce since the white 

 men began hunting them in schooners. 



Fred. Wilson, p. 301. Seals have become scarce the last three or four 



years, and the cause of it is, I think, the indis- 

 criminate killing of seals in the water. 



Seals are not near so plentiful as they were seven or eight years ago. 

 I think the cause of this is that they have been 



Wispoo,p.397. hunted so much by white hunters, who use shot- 



guns aud rifles. 



Have noticed the seal are decreasing very fast, owing to so many 

 Michael Wooskort, p. schooners hunting seals in the waters of the North 

 275. Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. 



The seal, like the sea otter, are becoming very scarce. I think if the 

 schooners were prohibited from taking seal in 



Yahkah,p. 246. Bering Sea and along the coast of Alaska, the 



seal would become plentiful and the Indians could 

 kill them once more in canoes. 



Since the white men with schooners began to hunt seal off Prince of 



Wales Island the seal have become very scarce 



Hastings lethnow, p. an( j ull ]ess they are stopped from hunting seal 



they will soon be all gone. If the white men are 



permitted to hunt seal much longer the fur-seal will become as scarce 



as the sea-otter, which were quite plenty around Dixons Entrance 



when I was a boy. The Indians are obliged to go a long way for seal 



now aud often return after two or three days' hunt without taking any. 



Seal have been disappearing very rapidly the last few years, and it 

 is hard for our people to get them. There are 



Paul Young, p. 292. too many white men hunting them with schoon- 

 ers off Prince of Wales Island. 



Walter Young, p. 303. Since the white man began to hunt seal they 

 are becoming very scarce. 



