128 HABITS OF THE ALASKAN SEAL. 



Heiti (Iocs notside.^ Rev. William Duncan, for tliirty years a 



enter iuland wii- 



tfrs* missionary among the Vancouver Indians, and 



whose successful labors in civilizing and Chris- 

 tianizing the Indians is well known in Canada 

 and the United St?ttes, states that he has never 

 heard of fur seal hauling upon the coast of British 

 Columbia or Alaska, or anywhere save on the 

 Pribilof Islands.^ Shucklean, an old Indian of 

 Killisnoo, Chatham Sound, states that the seals 

 do not frequent those waters, and he- never saw 

 a man who had seen a seal pup.^ Kah-chuck- 

 tee, the old chief of the Huchenoo Indians, 

 states that he has visited all the inlets and 

 islands in Chatham Sound and other parts of 

 Alaska as far as Sitka and never saw a fur seal 

 in the inland waters, and adds he would have 

 heard of seal hauling upon the islands or main- 

 land of Alaska from the Indians, who traded 

 with his tribe for herring oil, if such a thing had 

 occurred, but he had never heard such a report. 

 Ruth Burdukofski, a native of Unalaska Island, 

 states that ''no old seals ever haul out in this 

 vicinity," but that in the fall pups sometimes 

 come on shore after a heavy blow from the 



•Vol. II, p. 311. See also Dick or Elieusliesiit, Vol.11, p. 306; 

 Clat ka-koi, Vol. II, p. 305. 



* Vol. II, p. 279. 



' Shucklean, Vol. II, p. 253. See also Kcsth Kiley, Vol. II, p. 252; 

 Toodaya Charlie, Vol. II, p. 249. 



* Kah-chuck-tee, Vol. II, p. 248. 



