B92 TESTIMONY 



a canoe, and the Indians in the canoe used spears. Welumted 10 or 15 



miles oft' shore and about the same distance north and 



Sealing off coast. ^^^^^^^ ^^j. ^^^^^ Flattery. I used to hunt for seals in the 



Straits of San Juan de Fuca, but of late 3- ears have not done so because 

 the seals do not come into the straits any more. During the last eight 

 or ten years I have been hunting- seals in smaller canoes and were taken 

 f;ii*ther out to sea by schooners that would carry ten or fifteen small 

 canoes, each canoe manned by two Indians. I have sealed in that man- 

 ner all the way along the coast from the Columbia Eiver to the upper 

 end of the Vancouver Island and have never seen a 

 coast ""'^ ^'""^ "^ °° place along there where the seals hauled out upon the 

 land. Seals do not give birth to their young in the 

 water nor on the kelp. I never saw any black pups in the water, but 

 we used to catch a great many more gray x)ups than we do now, and I 

 have never captured any cows along the coast that were giving milk 

 and that had given birtli to their young that year. I never have cap- 

 tured any full-grown cows on the coast that were bar- 

 i,if in water!"^"''^'''" ^'^'^^ '^^^ seldoui scc any old bulls and can not teU the 

 sex of a seal in the water. 

 Seals are very much more scarce than they were when I began to 

 seal in schooners. I never see any more big herds 

 Decrease. |-j^^ j ^^^^1 ^^^ ,^^^^^1 l^ j^ much more difficult to get to 



them now than in former years. They have got wild and shy, because 

 they have been hunted too nuicli with guns. I have been out seal- 

 ing this year and caught 10 seals; 5 of them were fall-grown cows 

 that had pups in them. The i-est were young seals about 2 years 

 old, both male and female, excepting 1, and that was 

 Migration. ^ grcy pup. The seals first appear in this vicinity 



about the 1st of January, and pass along up the coast in June and 

 July. The cows most all disappear in June and the younger seals a 

 little later. 



, ^ , . I have always hunted with a spear and never with 



Has not bunted m ji i --r^-ci 



Bering Sea. a guu, and havc never been in Bering Sea. 



his 



Wilson x Paekee. 



mark. 



Witnesses:. 



John P. McGlinn. 

 C. E. Gay. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 27th day of April, A. 13. 

 1892. 

 [seal.] Clarence P. Brown, 



Notary Public in ami for the State of Washington. 



Deposition of Chcstoqua Peterson^ cleric of trader. 

 pelagic sealing. 



State of Washington, 



County of ClaUam, ss: 

 Chestoqua Peterson, being duly sworn , deposes and says : I am 24 years 

 of age, and am the son of Peter Brown, the chief of the Makah Indians. 

 I reside at Neah Bay, Clallam County, State of Wash- 

 Experience, ington. United States of America. I am by occui)a- 

 tion a clerk in the trader's store here, and I speak the 



