TAKEN NEAR CHATHAM SOUND. 253 



Deposition of ShucMean, physician, fisherman, trader in oil. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Slincklean, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Was born and have 

 liv^ed at Killisnoo all my life. Am 60 years of age. I 

 was a doctor most of my life, but have given it up, and Experience. 

 1 now catch herring aud make oil. The oil 1 sell to 

 the people of other tribes, who come a long ways to purchas(^ it from 

 me. Have been down to Sitka, and on all islands aud inlets around 

 Chatham Sound, and have never seen any fur-seal in ^^^^, ^^.^j ^j_^ ^^^^^ 

 my life, nor have 1 ever heard of any fur-seal being iiaui up on cdast oi 

 liauled up on any of the islands or rocks arimnd Chatbiun soun.i. 

 Oliatham Sound. K^or have 1 ever seen any man who said he ever saw 

 a fur-seal pup in his life. Have never seen an Indian belonging to 

 any tribe who said he ever saw or heard of a fur-seal hauling up on 

 the land anywhere in southern Alaska. The Indians who come here 

 to trade with me and our people come long distances, and had there 

 been a fur-seal rookery in any part of Alaska, my people and myself 

 would have known it. I can say no more. 



Shucklean, his X mark. 

 Witness to his mark : 



Peter Church, 



United i^tatcs Interpreter. 



A. W. JjAvender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United IStates Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Yuan Slanoeh, herring fisherman. 

 PELAGIC sealing. 



Yuan Slanoch, being duly sworn, deposes and says: Am 35 years 

 old; born and have lived in Killisnoo all my life. My 

 business is that of catching herring and making oil, Exptiience. 

 and chopping wood. I sell the oil to the people of other 

 tribes. When following my occujiation I visit all the islands and inlets 

 of Chatham Sound and have never seen or taken a fur-seal in my life. 

 Nor have I heard of any fur-seal imp being born in the ^^ leia^i- birti 

 water nor on the land in or around Chatham Sound, " peagio 

 nor have I ever heard of any fur-seal hauling up on ^" °ot ''""i "p «" 

 the land or rocks anywhere around Chatham Sound. 

 The people who I sell oil to come from a long distance, and I have never 

 heard them say that they had seen fur-seal hauled up on the land.any- 

 where, and they would have told me and others of our people had they 

 seen any. I don't know anything more about seals. 



lli.S 



Yuan x Slanoch. 



mark. 



Witness to his mark: 

 Peter Church, 



United States Interpreter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



