TAKEN AT NICHOLAS BAY. 297 



never known any pups to be bom in tlae water. Have never known 

 any fnr-seal to liaul out on the land anywhere around 

 this part of Alaska. I think the schooners vshonld be lana."" "" "^^ "" 

 prohibited from hunting- seal oft' Prince of Wales Is- Protection 

 land so they can become plenty again. 



his 



KOBERT X KOOKO. 



murk. 



Witness to his mark: 

 J. M. Potter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



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



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Experience. 



De2)ositio)i of Charles Martin, sealer, 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Charles Martin, being dulj^ sworn, deposes and says: I was born at 

 Klinquan and reside there; am 30 years old, and my 

 occuiiatiou is that of a hunter. Have hunted fur- 

 se.'il ever since I was a boy; always hunt in Dixons Entrance 

 and around Prince of Wales and Queen Charlotte's islands. I 

 use the shotgun for taking seal. About 50 per cent 

 are lost that are shot with the shotgun. About half ^uM^Jf"'^"^®'^''"'^^ 

 of the seals killed by me, I think, were cows with j)up. ^"^'^' 



Have never killed an old bull, but have killed a few yearlings in my 

 life. Kever examined the latter as to sex. Since the white man with 

 schooners has been hunting- seal they have been grow- 

 ing- scarcer every year, and unless they are stopped 

 the seal will soon be all gone. The Indians now have to go a long way 

 and suffer great hardsnips in order to get any. I have ^^ ^^^^ .^ 

 never known any fur-seal pups to be born in the water " ^"^ ^^^'^ "^ 

 or on the land around this part of Alaska or British Columbia. I have 

 never known any seal to haul out on the land any- 

 where around this part of Alaska or British Columbia, laST. ""* '''''"^ ""* "" 

 and I never liearcl of any hauling out in Alaska or 

 British Columbia. 



bis 



Charles x Martin. 



mark. 



Witness to his mark: 

 J. M. Potter. 

 A. W. Lavender. 



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



A. W. Lavender, 

 United States Treasury Agent. 



Deposition of N'ashtou, sealer. 



PELAGIC SEALING. 



Nashtou, being duly sworn, dei)oses and says ; 

 am 00 years old; and have been a hunter all my life; 

 have hunted fur seal outside of Prince of Wales Island Kxporieuce. 

 and in Dixons Entrance during the month of May every 



