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ered and tlie Tiulians ^o toward tlie seal and try to capture tlieiii, and at 



night we return to the schooner with our catch. Tlie seals are placed 



on board the schooner and skiuued, sometimes the carcasses are thrown 



into the sea, and sometimes they are saved for food. 



Migra ion. Scals appear on the coast about the last of December, 



and they are nearly all gone up north by the middle of July. 



About half the seals caught along the coast arecows that have white 



, , whiskers and have pups in them. A good many young 



Pregnant females. , t^ iV 14.0 ii 



males and females, irom 1 to 2 years old are cap- 

 tured. They all have black whiskers. I have never 

 killed any old bulls along the coast, but have killed a 



coSit""* ^"""^ "^ ™ v^^y few large cows late in the season that were bar- 

 ren. Seals do not haul out upon the land along the coast 

 and give birth to their young; nor do they breed on 

 Waste of life. ^-^^^ j^^j^^ ^^ • ^^ ^j^^ watcr. I get most all the seals that 



I hit with the spear. I lose about one-half of those I shoot with a gun. 



If I kill a seal right dead, it sinks almost as quick as a rock, and if it 



is slightly wounded they run away and are lost. 



1 have captured a great many seals with the spear, and found shot 

 in tiiem. I have never captured any cows in milk 



^^seahng in Benng ^j^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^,j^^^^ .^^ ^-^^^ Bering Sca, in 1889, 1 



sealed ofl' about 90 miles from the seal islands and 

 caught cows in milk there. During the last 5 or 6 



Decrease. yeais scals luivc dccrcascd in numbers very rapidly. A 



great many of the white men are poor hunters, and lose 



wa.ste of life. ^ great many of the seals that they shoot. They shoot, 



and shoot, and shoot, and don't get any seals, and that 

 makes them wild, so that an Indian can't get near them 



Migration. yfith a spcar. The cow sealsleave the vicinity of Cape 



Flattery sooner than the young seals do and are almost all gone in 

 June, but I have killed young ones as late as July. 



his 



John x Tysum. 



mark. 



Witness: 



John P. McGltnn. 

 C. E. Gay. 



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

 1892. 

 [SEAX.] Clarence P. Brown, 



Ifotary Fuhlic in and for the State of Washington. 



Deposition of Watlins^ Malcali Indian sealer. 



pelagic sealing. 



State of Washington, 



County of Clallam, ss: 



Watkins, being buly sworn, deposes and says: That I am a native 



Makah Indian, and reside at Neah Bay on the Indian Eeservation in 



the State of Washington, United States of America. My age is about 35 



years, and I am a hunter and fisherman by occupation. 



Experience. ^ j^^^^ y^^_^^^ hunting scals all my life, or since I was old 



Indian methods of euough. Prcvious to tcu ycars ago I always hunted 



"° '°^' seals with a spear in a large canoe, and from 20 to 30 



