METHOD. 189 



METHOD. 



The vessel commonly used in sealing is a Vessels, outfit, 



etc. 



schooner ranging from twenty to one hundred 

 and fifty tons burden ; the average tonnage per 

 vessel for tlie Victoria fleet in 1890 being 63.2 

 tons.^ The number of hunters and canoes or 

 boats carried by a sealer depends upon the size 

 of the vessel, but the average number of canoes 

 is between ten and sixteen, each manned by two 

 Indians,^ and when the hunters are whites the 

 boats generally number five or six.^ In some 

 cases both Indians and whites are employed on 

 the same vessel.^ The average number of men 

 to a vessel in 1890 was twenty-two.-^ 



The Indian hunter almost invariably uses a iin^ian Luntera. 

 spear, and though in the last two or three years 

 firearms have been carried in the canoe, ^ the 

 principal weapon used by him is still the spear.^ 

 A full description of the spear, canoe, and man- 

 ner of hunting is given by Lieut. J. H. Quinnan, 

 who accompanied some of the Indians in their 

 canoe during a hunting excursion,^ The most 



' Canadian Fisheries Report, 1890, page 183. 



•^ Niels Bonde, Vol. II, p. 315-316; Moses, Vol. II, p. 310. 



=* Patrick Maroney, Vol. II, p. 464; J. Jamieson, Vol. II, j). 329- 

 330; Niels Bonde, Vol. II, p. 316. 



■i James Dalgardno, Vol. II, p. 364. 



s Peter Brown, Vol. II, p. 377; Morris Moss, Vol. II, p. 341. 



fi Peter Brown, Vol. II, p. 377; Moses, Vol. II, p. 309. 



' Report of Lieut. J. II. Quinan, Vol. I, p. 504. See also A. C. 

 Alexander, Vol. II, p. 352. 



