TAKEN IN YAKUTAT BAY. 245 



tlii?spoar and arrow. I have never known any fiir-setil i^^ftver ivnow lur 



^ , ^ , ,, T -, 1 T . 1 • . i. seals to liaul up on 



to liaul uj) on the hmd anywhere aronnd this i>art oi Alaska coast. 

 Ahiska. Nor have I ever known any fnr-seal pnps to 

 be born in the water or anywhere else in Alaska, nor ^'^ P'^i'^gi^ '^i'-ti^- 

 liave 1 ever lieard any Indians with whom I have come in contact say 

 that they had ever known, any fnr-seal pnps to have been born in the 

 water, nor had they known any fur-seal to haul up on the land in any part 

 of Alaska. That is all 1 have got to say. 



Stahkan, 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, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Thunlc, native otter hunter. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Thunk, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am so old that I have 

 lost my eyesight. Was born in Yakutat and have lived 

 there all my life. Never killed any fnr-seal in my life. ^penence. 

 Spent all n\y life hunting sea-otter. Have never known Fur seal do not haul 

 any fur-seal to haul up "on the land around these bays "P""^"''^*- 

 or in any other part of Alaska. Have never known or ^^ Y<^\ag\o birth. 

 heard of any fur-seal pups being born in the water. 

 Neither have 1 heard of any fur-seal hauling up on the land anywhere 

 around this i)art of Alaska. Had there been any seal hauled up on 

 the hind it would have been told to me by people of diflerent tribes 

 AA'ith whom I have come in contact. I have no more to say. 



Thunk, his x mark. 

 Witness to his mark: 

 Peter Church, 



United States Interpreter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subsi'iibed and sworn to before me this 18th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, . 

 United, States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of TwongkwaJc, Yakut at Indian sealer. 



pelagic sealing. 



Twongkwak, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Was born at Ya- 

 kutat; am about 30 years old, and belong to the Yaku- 

 tat tribe of Indijins. Hunting is my occupation ; have xpenence. 

 hunted sea-otter and seal; have killed mostly pups in the fall of the 



