350 METHOD. 



Chief Frank, p.280. Have hunted fur seal in canoes. 



Nicoli Gh-cgoroffetal.,p. We use fire arms (rifles and shotguns) princi- 

 234 - pally? and hunt in bidarkas. 



ishka, p. 387. I have always used spears while hunting the 



seals in canoes. 



When I first began hunting, spears and arrows were used for seal- 

 ing. Now the shotgun has come into general 

 MikeKethusduok,p. 262. use, and a few seals are taken with a rifle. 



c. Elananeck, p. 263. A long time ago I hunted seal with a spear, but 

 of late years have used the shotgun. 



Robert Kooko, p. 296. I have used the spear and shotgun. 



Jno. Kowinectjp. 204. In early days 1 used spear altogether; of late 

 years the shotgun and rifle have been used exclu- 

 sively. 



Geo. Lacheek, p. 2G4. In early days spear and arrow was used exclu- 



sively, but now the shotgun and rifle are used 

 instead. 



Indian hunters will not stay out over ten days at a time when we 

 arc on the coast, so we have to come in and out 

 Andrew Laing,p. 33d. q U jt e fteu. 



Thomas Lowe, p. 371. During the first seven years I used the spear in 

 hunting seals. This year I have used the shotgun 

 part of the time. 



Have seen and tali en the first seal off Cape Flattery. When seal 

 are taken off Cape Flattery, Indian hunters were 

 James McKecu, p. 267. employed, who used spears. Farther west the 

 shotgun was used. 



The spear used by the Vancouver Island Indians for seal hunting is 

 10 feet long in the shaft, tapering off towards the 



Robert H. McManus, ends, and thus well balanced. At the point the 

 p ' ' shaft folks off into two prongs, on which the 



spear-head or harpoons lit easily, being attached to the shaft by a cod 

 line, which runs up to the butt, where it is caught in a bight and held 

 round the thumb of the right hand. On being projected the shaft 

 separates from the harpoons and floats on the water unheeded till the 

 seal is secured. But few are missed. Any that escape wounded only 

 suffer from a flesh wound of l.;, inches in depth. Once the harpoon 

 pierces the skin beyond the barbs the only possibility of escape lies in 

 the chance of the line breaking. This system of capture is both eco- 

 nomical from a business standpoint, as well as that of being almost, if 

 not entirely, less destructive to seal life, as compared with modern arms 

 of precision. 



Moses, p. 310. In hunting with the spear we make but little 



noise and get almost all that we hit. 



