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the seal. I don't like to see the schooners around here hunting seal, 

 for they kill everything they see, and unless they are stopped the seal 

 will soon be gone. The sea otter is already gone. (King Kashwa.) 



Seals have been growing scarcer the last five years, since the white 

 man began hunting them with schooners, and if they are not stopped 

 the seal will soon be all gone. (Jim Kasooh). 



Seals have decreased very rapidly along this coast in the last three 

 or four years. The decrease is caused, I think, by schooners using 

 shotguns and rifles and killing mostly female seals. (Mike Kethusduck.) 



The reason of the scarcity is, I think, that there are too many white 

 hunters sealing in the open waters. (Kinkooga.) 



Seal are becoming very scarce on the coast. The reason they are 

 becoming so scarce is that hunters shoot them with guns and kill cows 

 with pap. (0. Klananeck.) 



Seal used to be plentiful, but now they are nearly all gone. They 

 are too much hunted by the white men with schooners. (James Klo- 

 nacket.) 



Seal have become very scarce the last three years, and what few there 

 are are very wild and hard to get at. I think the reason that seal have 

 become scarce is that they are hunted too much, and too many females 

 killed with pup. (Robert Kooko.) 



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

 I think the cause of the decrease is that there are too many schooners 

 hunting seal in Bering Sea and along the North Pacific Coast. (John 

 Kowineet.) 



Seal are not as plentiful as in former years ; have noticed the decrease 

 in the last three or four years. Think the cause of the decrease is the 

 great number of schooners sealing in the North Pacific Ocean and Ber- 

 ing Sea. (George Lacheek.) 



Seals are not nearly so plentiful now as they used to be. About seven 

 years ago white men commenced to hunt seals in this vicinity with guns, 

 since which time they have been decreasing in numbers, and have 

 become wild and hard to catch. * * * Seals are not so plentiful 

 and are more shy than they used to be, and are more difficult to catch, 

 because they have been hunted so much for the last five or six years 

 with guns. (James Lighthouse.) 



White hunters in numbers commenced to hunt them around Cape 

 Flattery with guns about six years ago, and since that time the seals 

 have decreased very rapidly. (Thomas Lowe.) 



Since the white man with schooners has been hunting seal they have 

 been growing scarcer every year, and unless they are stopped the seal 

 will soon be all gone. The Indians now have to go a long way and 

 suffer great hardships in order to get any. (Charles Martin.) 



After careful inquiry among our oldest people and weighing my own 

 experience and observations, I believe the decrease of the Alaskan fur 

 seal is due altogether to pelagic hunting. (S. Melovidov.) 



Since the schooners have commenced to hunt seal they are becoming 

 very scarce, and the Indians have to go a long ways to get the few that 

 they do. (Matthew Morris.) 



Years ago seals were much more plentiful than they are now, and I 



