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and placed it in the water and it drowned. I have 

 Pup can not swim. ^^^_^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ mother Seal and tried to rear 



them, hut in two or three days it would sicken and die. 



Ellabush (his X mark). 

 Witness: 



John P. McGlinn. 

 C. E. Gay. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 27th day of April, A. D. 

 1892. 

 [seal.] Clarence P. Brown, 



Notary Puhlic in and for the State of Washington. 



Deposition of Alfred Irving^ Malaih Indian, sealer {master). 



pelagic sealing. 



State op Washington, 



County of Clallam, ss : 

 Alferd Irving, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am about 46 

 years old, and am a native Makah Indian, and reside 

 Experience. ou the Neali Bay Keservation, State of Washington, 



United States of America. My occupation is hunting 

 and fishing, and I am one of the headmen of my tribe. I am master 

 and one-half owner of the schooner Mary Parker. I have been en- 

 gaged in hunting seals ever since I was old enough. Formerly my 

 tribe hunted in canoes and used spears exclusively, but in the last two 

 years a few of them have used shotguns. Pievious to about ten years 

 ago we seldom went more than 20 miles but to sea and sealed about 

 that distance oif Cape Flattery. Since that time some of our tribe 

 have owned three or four snuill schooners, and those that go out in 

 them put their canoes and spears on the schooners and are carried 

 from 50 to 75 miles off Cape Flattery and along the coast from Colum- 

 bia Eiver to Barclay Sound. In the earlier years when I went hunting 

 we would not go out of the Straits of San Juan de 

 san^ Juan ° de'^^FuKi Fuca duriug the wiuter uiouths and early in the spring, 

 about 1st of January, The seals commcuce to appear in the Straits of San Juan 

 mkidfioTju'iy.''^"''* de Fuca about the 1st of January or the last of Decem- 

 ber and come and go to the middle of July. The gen- 

 eral course seemed to be to the north, and by the middle of June the 

 grown cows were most all gone, but the younger ones used to be quite 

 X)lentiful until about the middle of July, when they would also dis- 

 appear. 

 I have always used spears in huuting seals, and seldom wounded or 

 hit one that I did not get, until in 1S91, which year, 

 spSr."'*'"^ ^'^^ *'"' and the only one, I went to Bering Sea and used the 

 shotgun part of the time. I found in the use of the 

 shotgun that a great many of the seals that were killed 

 ni^eiTuKng'slf^' ^^ wouudcd wcrc lost, and that those that I secured in 

 the Bering Sea were nearly all females that had given 

 birth to their young and were in milk. Our vessel captured about 400 

 seals at a distance of about 100 miles from the Pribylov Islands, most 

 all of which were cows in milk. We used shotguns and secured about 



