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some yearlings. I slioot everytliing in shape of a seal that comes near 

 the boat and use uo discrimination. There are too ^ ,. . . ^ , .„ 



, 1 .• T j-L- T-, • J? TUT 1 T IndiscTimiuate kill- 



many schooners hunting seal on rrince ol Wales Is- ing. 



land, and it is hard for Indians to get any in canoes. 

 Have never known pups to be born in the water or on No pelagic binn. 

 the land anywhere on the coast of Alaska. Have never 

 known any seal to haul up on the land in Alaska. I ^^ "''^ ''■'^"' "" "" 

 have never seen any fur-seal in the inland waters of 

 Alaska wherever I have traveled. I think all schooners sliould be 

 stopped from hunting seal off Prince of Wales Islands, protection 

 so the seal would become plentiful once more and the In- 

 dians could catch tliem again. 



lii.s 



Johnnie x eToHNTiN. 



luarli. 



Witness to his mark: 

 J. M. Potter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this Ttli day of May, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 ♦ United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of James KJonacJcet, sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



James Klonacket, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born 

 at Kliuquan, and have lived at Howkan a great many years. I am now 

 a very old man and am a hunter by occupation. Have hunted fur-seal 

 for twelve seasons off Prince of Wales Island. Have . 



always hunted seal a month and a half before the small ^'^peneuce. 

 birds hatch, and they hatch about June 1. The seal all Mio^ration 

 go north about this time. I use the shotgun for taking '^"^'^ ^""' 

 seal, and sometimes I lose one or two out of ten that I kill. When I 

 first began to hunt seals the females were plenty, but 

 now they are not so plenty. The majority of seals killed 

 the last few years have been young males two and tliree years old. I 

 have killed a few old bulls. Tliey were not plentiful when I first began 

 to hunt, then they got plenty, and now they are nearly all gone. Fe- 

 male and male seals look the same in water, unless it be an old bull, 

 which I can tell by its bigness, and I shor»t everything that comes near 

 the canoe. Seal used to be plentiful,but now they are nearly all gone. 

 They aretoomuch hunted by the white men with schoon- 

 ers. Have never known any pups to be born in the water -^^ ^''^''^'*' ''"""'■ 

 or on the land anywhere in Alaska or British Columbia, and I don't know 

 where they are born. I don't know of any fur-seal 

 hauling up on the land anywhere in Alaska or British iifonian/""""""'^ 

 Columbia, and I don't know where they do haul up. "'' **° """ " 



his 



James x Klonacket. 



mark 



Witness to his mark : 

 Ik. W. Lavender. 

 H. li. Gould, Interpreter. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of IMay, 1892. 



A, W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



