246 TESTIMONY TAKEN IN YAKUTAT BAY. 



, , year, cliivcii in by tlie severe, weather outside. Never 



Do not haul up on •' ji- i i i xi i i i 



the laud. Lave seeu any tiir- seal liaul up on tlie laud u or have 



I ever heard of auy seal liauliug' up ou the laud. Have 



No pelagic birth. uever heard of seal pups heiu*^- horn in the water uor 



anywhere else in Alaska. Have heard all the In- 



Decrease. diaus of different tribes say that seal are beconiiug- 



Protection. "^^^I'y scaroe in the last three or four years. They also 



say that unless the schooners are stopped from sealing- 



in Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean the seal will all be gone, 



and none will be left for the Indians or anyone else. The seal have 



become so scarce of late years that I don't know much about them. 



This is all I kuow. 



TwOKGKWAK, his X mark. 

 Witness to his mark : 

 Petee (Jhurch, 



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 Yahl-ah, Yalcutat Indian hunter. 



PELAGIC SEALING-. 



Tahkah, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at Yaku- 



tat. I am about 35 years old and belong- to the Yaku- 



Experience. ^^^ tribe of Judiaus. Am a hunter by occupation. 1 



Kever heard of pe- go froiu Icy Bay to Sitka Souiul aud come in contact 



lagic birth. with the pcoplc of different tribcs of Indians, and have 



Kever heard of ncvcr sccu mysclf uor heard other Indians say that they 



Afaskan coasi; "^ *"" ^^^ ^^^^ furscal pups boru iu the water. Have never 



seen or heard of fur-seals hauling ui) on the land in 



any part of Alaska. When I was a small boy, a few pup seals used to 



be driven into the bays by hard storms on the coast. 



The seal, like the sea otter are becoming very scarce. 



I think if the schooners w ere prohibited from taking seal in Bering Sea 



and along the coast of Alaska, tlie seal would become 



. " ' plentiful and the Indians could kill them once more 



iu canoes. I don't know anything more about seals. 



Yaiikaii, 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. 



