TESTIMONY TAKEN AT NICHOLAS BAY FROM INDIANS 

 WHILE THEY WERE HUNTING FUR-SEAL. 



Deposition of WiUiam CJarlc, sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



William Clark, being* duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at 

 Klinquau and liave lived there ever since; have hunted 

 fur-seal nine years in Dixous Entrance and off Prince Experience. 

 of Wales Island, in and between March and June. 

 The seal disappear early in June, going north. I always Migration. 

 use the shotgun for taking seal. I think about 25 per 

 cent are lost. About half the seals killed by me have 

 been cows with pup. I never shot but two old bulls ciwa^withpup!''*"^' 

 in my life. Have shot a few yearling seals. The young- 

 male seals I have killed were between two and three years old, I think. 

 The last five years liir-seal have been growing very 

 scarce, and it is hard to get any now. There are too ^^^creaae. 

 many white men with schooners hunting them off Dixons Entrance, 

 and unless it is stopped the seal will soon be all gone. Have never 

 known or heard of any far-seal pups being born in the p^, ^ . u 

 water or on the land in any part of Alaska or British water.'' ^^ 

 Columbia. I have never known of seal to haul out on j^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ 

 the laud anywhere in this part of Alaska or British Co- land. 

 lumbia wherever I have been. 



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William x Clark. 



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Witness to his mark : 

 J. W. Potter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11 th day of May, 1892. 



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury A<jent. 



Deposition of Franlc, sealer. 

 PELAGIC SEALING. 



Frank, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born on Queen 

 Charlotte's Island, and am now a very old man. Don't know my age. 

 I have hunted fur-seals, and when I was a young man 

 tliere were lots of seals around Queen Charlotte Expiiience. 

 Islands, but now they have become scarce. The last 



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