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tlie coast during the moiitli of December. I think the Great Father 

 should stop all sealing bj^ schooners in the North 

 Pacific Ocean and the seal would again become plenty, 



so the Indians could again kill i)lenty ot them. That is all 1 know 



about seals. 



Witness to his mark : 

 Peter Church, 



United States Interpreter. 

 A. W. Laaender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent, 



Deposition of SJceenong, YaJcutat Indian hunter. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Skcenong, being duly sworn, dei)oses and says: I was born at Copper 



Ex ciieuce Eiver. I am an old man and belong to the Yakutat 



xpciicuce. tribe of Indians, but have lived here but one year. I 



hunt the sea-otter and land game in seasons. Have 



Decrease. hcard all the Indians with whom I have come in con- 



tact say that the fur seal are becoming very scarce of 



opcagic ir . j^^^ years. Have never known or heard of a fur-seal 



puj) being born in the water. Have heard that the fur-seal haul up 



„ , , , on the Pribilof Islands, but never have seen, or have 



Uo not haul up on .^ , i /• <> i i • i i t 



Alaskan coast. .1 evcr licard 01 any lur-scal being nauled up on any 



part of the coast of Alaska, or rocks adjacent thereto. 

 Never have seen any fur-seal in Disenchantment Bay, 

 Protection. ^^. aiiywhcrc else in the inlets of Alaska. I think tlie 



schooners should be stox)i)ed hunting seal in the open waters of the 

 Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, and if they are not stopped at once the 

 Indians who hunt fur-seal on the coast of Alaska for a living will be- 

 come very poor and probably starve to death. That is all I have to say. 



Witness to his mark : 

 Peter Church, 



United States Interpreter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Stahlcan. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Stahkan, being duly swin-n, deposes and says: I was born at Yakutat 



a;:d am noAv a very old nmn. Have hunted seal and 



Experience. sca-ottcr all my life during the summer season, using 



