TAKEN IN OK NEAR DIXON ENTRANCE. 287 



Entrance. I think if the schooners are not prohibited Protection. 



from hunting seal they will soon become as scarce as the 



sea otter now is. There have only been two seal killed by the four canoes 



hunting- olf Cape Muzou this season, which shows plainly enough that 



the seal are most all gone. I have never seen any ^^ ^^^ ic birth 



pup seal born in the water or on the land anywhere opeagi*^ 



around British Columbia or Alaska. Have never seen 



any fiu'-seal haul up on the land anywhere in Alaska, coas^'t""* ^'""^ "^' °" 



or British Columbia, or on Queen Charlottes Islands. 



his 



Dan X Nathlan. 



mark. 



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



A, W. Lavender, 



United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Joseph ISfeishJiaitk, sealer. 



PELAaiO SEALING. 



Joseph Neishkaitk, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born 

 in British Columbia; am (10 years old, and now reside 

 at New Melakahtla; am a hunter by occupation; have Experience. 

 hunted fur-seal ; hunt in Dixoiis Entrance and Queen 

 Charlotte Sound. The seal make their appearence the last of March 

 and disappear the 1st of June, and I hunt them dur- Mi.mtion. 

 ing that time. Use the shotgun for taking seal, and 

 lose about 25 per cent of those I shoot. Think about „,a^et teken^""''* ^" 

 half of the seals taken by me have been cows Avith pup ; 

 the rest are yearlings and young males two and three years old. Have 

 never seen an old bull in my life. Everything is killed i„,ii3,riminate kin. 

 that comes near the canoe in shape of a seal. We can- ing. 

 not tell a male from a female in the water. Seal are 

 not near as plenty as they used to be; too many hunt- 

 ers are catching them and indiscriminately killing them. I have never 

 known any pups to be born in the water or on the land around this 

 part of Alaska. I am a very old man, and I have never ^^ ^^j^^.^ ^^^^^ 

 even heard of. I have never heard of or seen any 

 seal havded up on the coast of Alaska anywhere. Have ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^p ^^ 

 never even seen any fur-seal in the waters around An- coast, 

 nette Sound or in any of the iidand waters. I think if protection, 

 the schooners were prohibited from taking seal they 

 would become plentiful again. 



his 



Joseph x Neishkaitk. 



mark. 



Witnesse to his mark : 

 David Leask. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of May, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



