332 HISTORY. 



Id early times, and until within the last ten years, I hunted seals 

 with spears in canoes. During the last ten years 



Circus Jim, p. 380. I have been sealing up and down the coast in 



schooners, but used spears all of the time. When 

 we used canoes exclusively I used to hunt and capture seals about 30 

 miles in the Straits of San Juan de Fuca. * * * 



I used to be out on the water hunting seals in a canoe for a couple of 

 days at a time, if the weather was fine. Three Indians would go in 

 one canoe. One would handle the spear, the other two would paddle 

 and steer the boat. I was the spearman. Usually we found several 

 seals at a time asleep on the water and would creep upon them, some- 

 times as near as 20 leet, but more frequently not closer than 40 to 50 

 feet. I would then throw the spear at them and almost always secure 

 all that I hit. Very rarely I would hit and secure two seals at a time. 

 I would then get a seal on each barb of the spear. 



We use smaller canoes now since we began to use schooners in which 

 to carry our canoes and hunters to the sealing waters, and but two 

 Indians go in one of these smaller canoes. 



In my early years I hunted seals in canoes and with spears in the 



Straits of San Juan de Fuca, and about 80 miles 



Jas. Claplanhoo, p. 381. off Cape Flattery. I killed seals for food and for 



their skins, getting about $3 apiece for each skin. 



About fifteen years ago Willie Gallick, who had a trading post here, 



had three or four schooners, and employed Indians to go sealing and 



sail his vessels. They would put their canoes and spears on board the 



schooners and go out and hunt about 20 or 30 miles off the coast, as 



far south as the Columbia River and north to Barclay Sound. A few 



years later some of the Indians owned, or partly, an interest in the 



schooners. About six years ago the British schooner Alfred Adams 



came here, and her master engaged Indian hunters to go sealing in the 



Bering Sea. 



Also used to hunt seals in canoes up and down the coast from Cape 



Flattery. In those days there were a great many 



Jeff Davis, p. 384. seals along the coast. They traveled in little 



herds of from ten to fifteen each, and we could 



sometimes creep up on them when they were asleep on the water and 



spear one or two before they got away. We usually secured all that 



we hit with the spear. About 10 or 12 years ago we began to hunt 



seals in schooners, and ventured farther out in the ocean and sealed 



for greater distances up and down the coast. I have sealed as far south 



as the Columbia River and as far up the coast as the north end of 



Vancouver Island. 



I commenced sealing in canoes along the coast and in the Straits of 

 San Juan de Fuca, about fifteen years ago, and 

 Ellabush, p. 385. have always hunted seals with spears until re- 



cently. Three Indians usually go with each canoe. 

 About ten years ago I went hunting in the schooner Mist, owned by a 

 white man. We cruised for seals along the coast, between the Colum- 

 bia River and Barclay Sound. 



Formerly my tribe hunted in canoes and used spears exclusively, but 

 in the last two years a few of them have used shot- 



Aiferdirving, p. 386. guns. Previous to about ten years ago we sel- 

 dom went more than 20 miles out to sea and sealed 



