258 TESTIMONY 



Deposition of John G. Clement, sealer, one season on Mollie Adams. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Jolni C. Cleiiieiit, being duly sworn, deposes and says : I reside at Sitka ; 



am 25 years old. Have hunted seal one season on the 



EKpeiieuce. schoouer MoUie Adams in the North Pacific Ocean and 



Bering Sea. Have caught seal all along the coast from Cape Flattery to 



the Pribilof Islands, using the shotgun exclusively. Over 50 per cent are 



lost Avhen shot with shotgun. INIost of the seals taken are 



maiM take™^""" ** COWS witli i^up. The sex cau uot be told iu the Water, and 



^ ,. . . , 1 .,1 all are shot that come near the boat. No discrimination 



Indiscriminate kill- . i i j. i -ii j.i • 4.1 -vr 1 



hiff. IS used; hunters kill everything they see. ^ever have 



■wn'ter.^ ""* ^"^ ^° kiiowu or heard of pups being born in the water or 

 1)0 not haul up on elscwhcre outside the Pribilof Islands. Have never 

 *^"'*^*' known or heard of fur-seals hauling up on the land on 



this coast elsewhere than the Pribilof Islands. I think the indiscrim- 

 inate killing of seals in Bering Sea is the cause of their 

 iioeuion. scarcity along the coast, and if pelagic sealing was 



stopped altogether, the seal would then become plentiful. 



John C. Clement. 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Ho on ah Dick, subchief of Rooniah Indians. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Hooniah Dick, being duly sworn, deposes and says : Born at Sitka ; am 



about 40 years old. Have been living in Hoonah ten 

 Experience. years, aiid aui now subchief of the Hoonah In- 



dians. Have hunted seal for three years from Cross Sound to Yaku- 

 tat. Always use the shotgun and rifle for taking seal. Always 

 shoot the seal close to the boat and rarely lose one, but when 



shot at with the ritle I lose a good many. I have 



No peiasiic Lirth. t^q^jqj- knowii of a pup scal being born in the water or 



on the land anywhere in Alaska outside of the Pribilof Islands. Never 



have heard of any fur-seal being hauled up on the 

 ^^Do nut haul up on coast or I'ocks of Alaska other than on the Pribilof 



Islands. Have traveled from Hoonah to Fort Simp- 

 son and north as far as Chilcat through all the channels and sounds 

 ill southeastern Alaska, audi come in contact with the people of many 

 tribes of Indians and I have never heard them say that they had ever 



seen or heard of a fur-seal being hauled up on any 



coSt °°* '"'"^ "^' *"" P'^^i'^ ^^ *^^ ^'^^'^^* ^^ ^^ '^^y ^^ *^^^ islands along the 

 coast of Alaska. Had they ever known of a rookery 

 of fur-seal in any part of Alaska I should have known it. I know no 

 more about seal than what I have said. 



hia 



Hoonah x Dick. 



mark. 



Witness to his mark : 

 Peter Church, 



United States Interpreter. 

 Siili scribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



