TAKEN IN YAKUTAT EAY. 243 



Deposition of Schl-atatin, Yalcutat Indian scaler. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Schkntatin, being: duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born in 

 l^akutat and I have lived there all my life. I belong 

 to the Yakntat tribe of Indians and am now a very old Experience. 

 man; am by occupation a hunter. Yes; I have killed 

 fur-seal. I used the bow and arrow for killing them. Never knew 

 any fur-seal pups to be born in the water or anywhere 

 else in Alaska. Have heard that they are born on the " ^'^ '^*"' 

 Pribilof Islands. Have never known any fur-seal to po not imui up on 



.,, I'lii /. j.i-1 1 Alaskan coast. 



come up on the land m Alaska or on any ot the islands 

 adjacent thereto, but have heard that they do haul out on the Pribi- 

 lof Islands. I have traveled from Icy Bay to Nuchuk ^^^^ 

 and back along the coast as far east as Lityu Bay, and fur-seais in'^'^inuud 

 have never seen any fur-seal in any inland waters ^^ters. 

 wherever I have traveled. I think the Great Father should stop all 

 schooners from hunting seal in Bering Sea and the ,, , ^. 

 Pacific Ocean, so the seal would become i)lentiful 

 again and the Indian hunters would again have a chance to kill them. 

 That is all I know about seal. 



ScHKATATiK, his X mark. 



Witness to his mark: 

 Peter Chuech, 



United States Interpreter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this IStli day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Depositio7i of ShoicooseJt, Yalaitat Indian sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Showoosch, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at Sitka; 

 am a very old man and I belong to the Y^akutat tribe of Indians; have 

 been a hunter all my life, hunting sea-otter and seal 

 in the summer and bear and fox in the winter. When Experience. 

 I was a young man I killed fur-seal oft' Yakntat Bay, 

 using a spear altogether. I haven't killed any seal 

 lately, as they are getting very scarce. The majority of 

 seal killed by me have been cows ; have killed a few small males. Have 

 never known or heard of any pups being born in the ^^ ^^^ .^ ^ .^^^^ 

 water or anywhere on the coast, nor have I ever known " ^'^ ''^''^ 

 or heard of any fur-seals being hauled up on the land ^""^."°\.'';,"t' ^*'™ 

 anywhere in Alaska. Once in a while a fe\v pups are 

 driven into the bay by the hard gales blowing from the southeast on 



