296 TESTIMONY 



Dcj^oxition of Jim Kasooli, scaler. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Jiin Kasooli, beiug duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born at 



Howkan and have lived there all my life. Am about 



Sealer; expeiieuco. 



jiiu Kasoou. ^- years old. I am by occupation a hunter. Have 



hunted fur seal for eight years. Always hunted in 



Migration. Dixous Entrance and off Prince of Wales Islands in 



May and June. In June the seal all go up north. 



They come in March, but it is too stormy to hunt them. I always use 



the shotgun for taking seal. Sometimes I lose two 



^v?gllntfeLi^t^' and three out of ten that I shoot. About half of the 



seals killed are females with pup. Have killed some 



yearling seals, but never killed an old bull. The young males I killed 



Decrease wcre betwceu two aiul three years old. Seals have 



been growing scarce the last five years, since the white 



man began hunting them with schooners, and if they are not stopped 



the seal will soon be all gone. I have never known seal pups to be 



born on the land or in the water in this part of Alaska. I never knew 



la ic birth fnr-seals to haul out anywhere on the land in Alaska, 



1)0 not"^aai"up'ou uor have I ever heard of any being hauled out. 



laud. 



his 



Jim X Kasooh. 



mark. 



Witnesss to his mark : 

 A. W. Lavender. 



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



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of Robert Kool'o, sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Eobert Kooko, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I was born in 



Victoria, British Columbia; moved from Victoria to 



Experience. Howkaii, Alaska, when I was a small boy. Have hunted 



fur-seal for three years in Dixons Entrance and off Prince 



of Wales Island in the month of May. Tiie seal all leave there by the 



first of June; think they go north. I have used the 



igration. spcar aiid shotgun. When a seal is struck with a spear 



we never lose him. About 50 per cent are lost when shot with a 



shotgun. The majority of seals taken by me were 



na^tiemsdes^^^''^"'^" fcnuiles witli pup. Ilavc taken some yearling seals, 



but never examined them as to sex. Have killed one 



or two old bulls in my life. The males I have killed have been 



one and two years old, I think. I kill everything that 



ing" decrla'se!''**^ ^'^^ comcs ucar tlie cauoc, regardless of sex. Seal have 



become very scarce the last three years, and what few 



there are are very wild and hard to get at. I think the reason that 



No eia ic birth ^^'^^^ havc bccome scarce is that they are hunted too 



o pt agic ir . jjjm.jj^ .^mj ^QQ many females killed with iDup. I have 



