170 DECREASE OF THE ALASKAN SEAL HERD. 



Aiongtiiccoast. he began Imiiting/ and lie is supported in this 

 statement by James L. Cartlicut, captain of" a 

 sealing vessel from 1877 to 1887, Alexander 

 McLean, a captain of a sealing schooner for 

 eleven years, Daniel McLean, also with eleven 

 years' experience, and many others.'^ Peter 

 Brown, chief of the Makah Indians at Neah Bay, 

 in the State of Washington, a tribe who from 

 time immemorial have been expert seal hunters 

 and have tlii'ough their industry acquired much 

 property^ and are among the few civilized aborig- 

 inal tribes of North America, testifies to the 

 decrease in the seal herd.* Hastings Yethow, an 

 old Indian residing at Nicholas Bay, Prince of 

 Wales Island, who has hunted seals from boy- 

 hood, says.: "Since the white men with schooners 

 began to hunt seal off Prince of Wales Island, 

 the seals have become very scarce and unless 

 the}^ are stopped from hunting seal they will 

 soon be all gone. If the white men are permit- 

 ted to hunt seal much longer the fur-seal will 

 become as scarce as the sea- otter, which were 

 quite plenty around Dixon Entrance when I 

 was a boy. The Indians are obliged to go a 



» Vol. II, p. 432. 



2 G. Fogol, Vol. II, p. 424; G. Isaacson, Vol. II, p. 440; James 

 Sloan, Vol. II, ]). 477 ; J. D. McDouald, Vol. II, p. 2GG ; Louis Culler, 

 Vol. II, p. 321. 



3 Vol. II, p. 378. 



■• lhi(1.,i^Y). 377, 378. 



