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 ie white men have been hunting the seal with schooners they 

 )ine very scarce, and it is hard for the Indians to get any in 

 their canoes. (Luke Frank.) 



Seal have decreased on the coast very fast the last four years. The 

 reason of the decrease is too much hunting and indiscriminate killing. 

 (Chad George.) 



The seal are becoming very scarce, caused, I think, by the white men 

 hunting them too much. (Charles Gibson.) 



Seal are becoming very scarce this last three or four years, and Indian 

 hunters can hardly kill them now. Too many schooners are hunting 

 seal, and Indian hunters have to go a long way in their canoes in order 

 to get any, and they seldom kill one. (Gonastut.) 



Have noticed that seals are decreasing the last four years, caused, I 

 think, by too many white men hunting seal in the waters of the Pacific 

 Ocean and Bering Sea. (James Gondowen.) 



Fur seals have decreased in numbers of late years, and we believe it 

 is due principally to the large number of vessels hunting them at sea. 

 (Nicoli Gregoroif.) 



The seal are not nearly as plentiful as they once were, and I think 

 they are hunted too much by schooners. (Henry Haldane.) 



Seals are not as plentiful now as they were before white men com- 

 menced hunting them with guns around here some six or seven years 

 ago. They are more shy now and it is much more difficult for the hunt- 

 ers to creep up and spear them than it was a few years ago. (Alfred 

 Irving.) 



Years ago we could see seals all over the water. They are not so 

 plentiful now. They have been growing less and less ever since the 

 white man came in and began to hunt them with guns, about six or 

 seven years ago, and so many vessels went into the business. (Ishka.) 



My idea is that there are too many camp fires around on the coast of 

 Alaska that scare the seals out to sea. The seal smell the smoke and 

 wont come near the land ; and there are a large number of people shoot- 

 ing seal, which scares them away also. (Jack Johnson.) 



There are too many schooners hunting seal oft Prince of Wales 

 Island, and it is hard for Indians to get any in canoes. (Johnnie 

 John ton.) 



Have noticed that seal are decreasing very fast the last few years 

 along the coast, caused, I think, by pelagic sealing. * * * Think 

 the seals are most all killed by the pelagic seal hunters in the waters of 

 the North Pacific Ocean so far from the land that the Indians have no 

 chance to get any in canoes, as they only go a short distance from the 

 shore. (P. Kahiliday.) 



Do not know why the number of the fur seal seen about these islands 

 are now less than in former years. (Samuel Kahooroft'.) 



I think the seal are about as plentiful along this coast, but much more 

 scarce farther west. The cause of this scarcity is too much pelagic 

 hunting. (Philip Kashevaroff.) 



When I was a young man the seal were very plentiful around here, 

 but since the schooners began hunting them they have become very 

 scarce. The white hunter destroyed the sea otter and will soon destroy 



