TAKEN AMONG THE MAKAH INDIANS. 395 



^railcR around Cape Flattery and from GO to 100 miles up and down the 

 coast. Eacli canoe carried 3 Indians, and I was the spearman, and 

 generally secured about all of the seals that I hit, but would sometimes 

 miss them and they would swim away. In hunting with schooners 

 during the last ten or twelve years we would take ten or fifteen smaller 

 canoes on board and go up and down the coast from the mouth of the 

 Columbia Kiver to the upper end of Vancouver Island. We send but 

 2 men out in the small canoe. *I have always used 

 the spear in hunting the seals and none of the hunters GunfTigiilln' the 

 that went with me ever used the gun. We do not like ^®^^^- 

 to use guns because it scares the seals away. 



I do not know of any place along the coast where the seals haul out 

 upon the land and give birth to their young, nor can ^ , 



,,^ . 1 • . 1 J. XI ■ • J.1 J. J.1 Seals not bom in 



they give birth to their young in the water or on the- water. 

 kelp and have them live. Within the last five or six Decease 

 years the seals are becoming fewer and fewer, and are 

 wild and shy and very hard to catch. Most of the seals Pregnant females 

 captured along the coast are cows with pups in them. *^^''"- 

 I have never captured any cows in milk or that had given birth to 

 their young that year on coast, and I do not recollect of ever hav- 

 ing caught ail old bull. The seals first appeared about no old buiis caught. 

 the cape the lastot December, and the grown females q^ coast December 

 all leave for the north in June, but we kill some of the tnunne. 

 younger seals up to the middle of July, and then they leave. I have 

 not caught any gray pups this year and have never hunted seals in the 

 Bering Sea. So many schooners and white men are -^ , 

 hunting them with guns all along the coast that they '^^^^ pnpscaugi . 



are getting all killed off. Extermination. 



Watkins (his X mark). 

 Witness : 



C. P. Brown. 

 John P. McGlinn. 



Subscribed sworn to before me on this 27th day of April, A. D. 1892. 

 {seal,.] Clarence JP. Brown, 



Rotary Fublic in and for the State of Washington, 



residing at Fort Angeles, Wash. 



Deposition of Charley White, Malcali Indian, sealer. 



habits. pelagic sealing. 



State of Washington, 



County of Clallam, ss: 

 Charley White, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am about 40 

 years old, and am a native Makah Indian. I reside on 

 the Indian Reservation at Neah Bay, State of Wash- ^^p^"'^"''*'- 

 ington. United States of America. I am by occupation a hunter 

 and fisherman, and have been so engaged' all my life. I have 

 hunted seals in canoes all along the coast, between Grays Harbor 

 and the northern end of Vancouver Island. Years 

 ago we went out in the ocean in canoes, but in later ]„]^ath!g.'^^ °^ ^'"''^° 

 years we take our canoes out on the ocean in schooners 

 and then hunt seals from the schooners. Have never been any farther 



