292 TESTIMONY TAKEN IN OR NEAR DIXON ENTRANCE. 



Affidavit of Paul Young, scaler. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Paul Young, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I Tras born at 



Kasan, and am 30 years old ; liave lived at Kasan all my 



Experience. ]jfg. ^^^ ^ huuter by oocupation ; in the spring and 



early summer I hunt fur-seal in canoe, Seal make 



Migration. ^^^.^ appearance off Prince of Wales Islands in April. 



Always use shotgun for taking seal. I lose but very few seal, as 1 



Mnorit taken ^^'^^^Y^^ slioot them Very close to the boat. Most of the 



pregnant females. ^" scals I have killed wcrc fcmalcs with pup. Once in a 



Indiscriminate kill- whilc au old bull is takcii. I use no discrimination and 



ing. kill everything that comes near the boat in shape of a 



D crease ^^^'^' ^^^^ have bceu disappearing very rapidly the 



last few years, and it is hard for our people to get 



them. There are too many white men hunting them with schooners off 



Prince of Wales Island. I have never seen any fur-seal in the inland 



waters of this part of Alaska, nor have 1 ever heard of any being there 



from the people of my tribe. Have never known any 



00^81" W'^peiTg'ic fur-seal to haul up on the land, nor have I ever seen or 



i^"*''- heard of pups being born in the water. I think the 



Protection schooucrs sliouUl bc stoppcd from hunting seal, and 



tliion they would become plenty again, and the Indians 



could kill them again as they used to. 



liis 



Paul x Young. 



mark. 



Witness to his mark : 

 J. M. Potter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of May, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury AgcnU 



