306 ■ TESTIMONY 



Deposition of Kicldana, sealer. 

 PELAGIC SEALING. 



Kickiana, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is 20 years of 



age,- is a native of Sechart village, and a son of Clat-ka-koi. Last year 



he went north in schooner Ariel, and spent one and one-half months in 



Bering Sea, with a crew of eight white men and sixteen Indians, and 



spent half of April and month of May. He caught 



Seals never show 1,080 scal. They nevcr show themselves out of water 



water '^7b " Barclay i^ the locality of Barclay Sound. He has seen them 



Siovmd. on beach in the Bering Sea. He never knew of one to 



be born in the water, and never heard of it. He has 



•wSe?* °°* ^°^^ ^ never seen baby seals in the vicinity of Barclay Sound. 



The white men lose a great many by shooting. The 



Indians lose fewer in their method by spearing. He thinks white men 



lose three out of five, on an average. 



KiCKiANA (his X mark). 

 Attest: 



E. T. WiTHERSPOON, 



Hakry George. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of April, 1802; and 

 I further certify that the foregoing affidavits were read to Clat-ka-koi 

 and Kickiana, and the contents fully made known to them by J. T. A. 

 Bulfinch, duly sworn as interi)reter, and that they fully understood the 

 same. 

 [SEAL.] Oliver Wood, 



U. S. Commissioner for tJie district of Washington, 



Residing at Fort Townsend. 



Clat-ka-koi understands and speaks English fairly weU. Kickiana 

 understands and speaks English fairly weU. 



Oliver Wood, 

 U. 8. Commissioner for the district of Washington, 



Residing at Fort Townsend. 



Deposition of DicTc, or Ehenchestit, one of the chiefs of Aguis et al. 



PELAGIC sealing AND HABITS. 



Dick, or Ehenchesut, first being duly sworn, deposes and says: That 

 he is about 40 years of age, and one of the chiefs of the 

 Experience. village of Aguis, Barclay Sound; is a native of this 



village, and a resident of the same. He states that 

 during the last five months twenty-five canoes belonging to the village, 

 manned by fifty men, have been engaged in sealing off 

 of^vaiTcouvefiSaM.^* the coast of Vaucouvcr Island. They obtained in this 

 time 10 skins per capita, in all 500 skins. To his 

 knowledge, no seals CA^er came inside Barclay Sound, 

 ci^^'s^o^iuid!'^*^'^ '^^^ ^^^ tl"^* 1^^ never caught any inside, and, moreover, he 

 and his fiiends never heard of any entering these wa- 

 ters. He states that there are no kelp patches outside, where seals- 

 resort or where they breed. The 50 men who went out from this vil- 

 lage joined schooners, two in number, one of them commanded by Capt. 



