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north than Barclay Sonnd. I have always used spears in hunting the 

 seals, and very seldom lose one I hit. While out hunt- 

 pre-^int fcnlaitrs.'^^* i"8' this year we caught sixteen seals: one-half of them 

 were cows with pup, the remainder were yearlings and 

 two years old, of both sexes. Seals begin to appear on the coast the 

 latter part of December, and they are almost all gone by the 10th of 

 Mi<Tation July. The cows ap]^ear to leave for the northward 



igra ion. earlier than the younger ones. While out seal hunt- 



ing last year I captured a few seals that the white hunters had wounded 

 and lost, and found a good many shot in their bodies. I have captured 

 a good many seals lately that had buckshot in them. Seals do not 

 liaul out on land at Barclay Sound nor along the coast, 

 wfter** ^^* ^°™ ^ ^^^' ^^ ^ think they give birth to their young iu the 

 water or on the keli). 

 Seals were always identy in the Strait of San Juan de Fuca and 

 along the coast until the white hunter came here and 

 commenced shooting them some six or eight years ago. 

 Since that time they have decreased very rapidly. 



Ms 



Charley x White. 



mark 



Witness : 



John P. McGlinn. 

 C. E. Gay. 



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

 D. 1892. 

 [SEAL.] Clarence P. Brown, 



Notary Fuhlic in and for the iState of Washington. 



Deposition of Wispoo, Indian, sealer, 



habits. pelagic sealing. 



State of Washington, 



County of Clallam, ss : 



Wispoo, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a native Indian 



of the Makah tribe, and reside on the reservation at Neah Bay. I 



. am about 35 years old, and am by occupation a hunter 



xpenence. ^^^ fishcrmau. I havc hunted seals all my life, or 



since I was old enough to do so. I have sealed up and down the 



coast, between the mouth of the Columbia Eiver and the upper end 



of the Vancouver Island and Barclay Sound. I am familiar with the 



bays and inlets along the coast, and I do not know of 



co?s't.^"* ^'^"^ "^ °° ^^y place on the coast where the seals haul out upon 



the land and breed. They do not give birth to their 



pujjs in the water nor on the kelp. Sometimes daring a heavy storm 



a few seals will be driven on shore for a short time, but will not stay 



but a few hours. Until about eight years ago I used to catch seals in 



the Straits of San Juan de Euca, but for the last two 



seaimg m straits. ^^ ^j^^,^^ ^^^^.^ ^^^^^ ^.^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ scarcc in the straits 



that we do not try to hunt them any more. About ten years ago I 



commenced hunting seals from schooners, using smaller canoes than I 



formerly did, and have always used spears in hunting 



Pelagic sealing. gcals. About scvcu or eight years ago schooners came 



