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the seal will soon be gone and tlie Indian must starve that makes his 

 living- by hunting them. I am told the white hunter kills mostly cow 

 seal with pup. That is all I have to say. 



Witness to his mark: 

 Peter Chukcii, 



tfnited iStatcs Tnierpretcr. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



his 



Sam X Hayikahtla. 



mark. 



Subscribed and sworn to bcfoie me this 18th day of April, 1802. 



A, W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury A<jcnt. 



. Deposition of Kinlwoga, Yaliitat sealer. 



Pelagic sealing. 



Kinkooga, being duly sworn deposes and says: I was born at Yak- 



utat and have lived there all my life. 1 am aboi^it 40 



<xpeiience. years old, I think. By occupation I am a hunter. Have 



Bo not haul up on killed a fcw furscal in my life. Have never known any 



'"no leia'-ic birth furscal to hanl out on the land, nor have I heard of 



o pe agic ir . ^^^ bciug haulcd out on the land from people of differ- 



Indiscriminate kill- ent tribcs whom I have met. Have never seen or heard 



^"^' of a fur-seal pup being born in the water. Hunters 



use no discrimination in hunting seal, but shoot everything that comes 



)iear the boat. Have traveled from Icy Bay to Wrangel and have never 



seen any seal in the inland waters in my life. A few fur-seal pups have 



been killed in the bay within my remembrance, in the winter seasons, 



Decrease drivcii there by the storms on the coast at those times. 



Seal are getting very scarce on the coast the last three 



or four years. The reason of the scarcity is, I think, that theie are too 



many white hunters scaling in the open M^aters. Indian hunters can not 



get any more in canoes on account of the few seals that 



are left, are so far from the laud. All sealing in open 



waters by white men should be stopped. I have no more to say. 



Kinkooga, his x mark. 



Witness to his mark : 

 Peter Church, 



United States Interpreter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of April, 1893. 



A. W. Lavender, 



United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of N'echantal-e, Yalcntat Indian sealer. 



PELAGir SEALING — MIGRATION. 



Nechantake, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born in Yak- 



.. J utat and have lived there all my life. I belong to the 



do not"imd' up^n Yakutat tribe of Indians, and am a very old man. Am 



*^"''^'- by occupation a hunter. Have never known any far- 



