390 TESTIMONY 



My tribe used to limit exclusively in canoes, and did not go many 



miles from tlie cape, but in the last ten or twelve vears 



HuBtmg by Indians. ^ ^^^^^ many of tlie hunters put their canoes oil the 



small schooners, owned by some of us, and we go farther out into the 



sea, and from the Columbia River to Barclay Sound, to hunt seals. 



Unless we use guns we will have to stop hunting them, for they are 



^ getting so wild we can not catch many. I know that a 



gYQQ^l xnany must be lost by tlie white hunters, for a great 



many that I catch have shot in them, and some are badly wounded. 



The first seals appear in the strait and on the coast about the last of 



Mi'-ration of eai I^eccmber and feed along the coast, and seem to be 



igia ion o seas, ^^pj^j^g slowly to the iiortli, uutil about the middle of 



June, at which time the cows are pretty much all gone, but the smaller 



seals remain until about the middle of July. I seldom see an old bull, 



and when I do he is much farther from land, and it is early in the 



season. 



Formerly, we used to hunt seals for food and sold the skins to traders 



Prices of skins ^'^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ eacli, but for the last few years we have 



been getting big prices for the skins and we catch all 



^Indiscriminate kill- ^g (.^^ wlthout regard to sizc or sex. Ten years ago 



I seldom saw a white hunter shooting seals, but now 



Waste of life. the sca is full of them and they are banging away all 



the time, getting some but killing and wounding a 



great many they do not get. 



liis 



James x Lighthouse. 



mark. 



Witness : 



John P. McGltnn. 

 0. E. Gay. 



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

 1892. 

 [L. s.] Clabence p. Brown, 



Notary Publie in and for the State of Washington. 



Deposition of Osly, Malcali Indian sealer, 



PELAGIC sealing. 



State of Washington, 



Comity of Clallam, ss: 



Osly, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a native Makah 



Indian, and reside on the Indian reservation at Neah Bay, in Clallam 



County, State of Washington, United States of America. I am about 



28 years old, and am a fisherman and hunter by occnpa- 



Experience. tion. I havc bceii engaged at seal hunting along the 



coast for the last ten years. At first I hunted in large 



canoes, but soon commenced to go hunting in schooners. I have sealed 



all along the coast, from the mouth of the Columbia Eiver to the passes 



^ - , ,, , leadinginto theBeTingSea,and do notknowof anyplace 



Seals do not haul up , , ® . - i i i . . i i i c-i i 



on coast, and are not Oil the coast whcrc scals haul out upoii the land. Seals 



kelp. '"^ ^^^*''" "'" ""^ ^o ^'ot give birth to their young in the water nor on the 



kelp. About six years ago I went to Bering Sea, as a 



FavoHte,mQ. a liunter, ou the sealing schooner i^avorife, McOlean,, 



master. She carried one stern boat and ten canoes j 



