TAKEN AMONG THE MAKAH INDIANS. 397 



in with white men who used shotguns, and have gradually increased in 

 number and size of vessels, until now there are nearly one hundred 

 sealing schooners engaged in sealing along the coast. 



Seals "are not near so plentiful as they were seven or eight years ago. 

 I think the cause of this is that they have been hunted 

 so much by white hunters, who use shotguns aad rifles. ecrease. 

 Most all the seals caught by me along tbe coast were 

 cows that had pups in them. I never killed a barren taken^^"* ^''"''^'"^ 

 cow or one that was in milk, and have never seen a 

 black pup in the water along the coast, but used to capture a great 

 many gray pups, but this year I have not seen one. Seals first appear 

 off Cape Flattery about the last of December. The 

 cows seem to leave first, and in July nearly all of the ^'S'^t^o"- 

 seals have disappeared. I am familiar with the west coast of Vancou- 

 ver Island, and have been in Barclay Sound, Clayquot Sound, and 

 talked with the Indians there, and none of us know of any j)lace along 

 the coast where seals haul out upon the land and 

 breed, nor have I heard any Indian speak of such a co?8°t ''*'* '''^"^ "^ °° 

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

 water nor on the kelp. Many of the seals I have speared had shot and 

 bullets in them. This was never seen before until about eight years 

 ago, and now it is a frequent occurrence. 



Wispoo (his X mark). 

 Witness : 



John P. McGlinn. 



C. E. Gay. 



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

 1892. 



[SEAL.] OlAKENCE P. BEOWN, 



Notary Public in and for the State of Washington. 



Be^osltion of Hish YuUa, Maliah Indian, sealer, 



pelagic sealing. 



State of Washington, 



County of Clallam, ss : 

 Hish Yulla, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am about GO 

 years old, and am a native Indian of the Makah tribe, and reside on 

 the Neah Bay Eeservation, in the county of Clallam, State of Wash- 

 ington, United States of America. I have been a hunter and fisher- 

 man all my life. Years ago I used to hunt seals in the 

 Straits of San Juan de Fuca in the winter time, and Experience. 

 in the summer time I would hunt them in canoes from 

 10 to 20 miles oft' Cape Flattery, and of late years I hunt in a small 

 canoe, and put it on a schooner and go up and down the coast between 

 the mouth of the Columbia Eiver and Barclay Sound. I have always 

 used spears in hunting tlie seals. I have been out on the Pacific Ocean 

 this year seal hunting, and caught three seals; they 

 were large cow seals, and had pups in them. One and ar^fe^^cr^"^ '^'^''^^* 

 two year old seals are about equally male and female. I 



