398 TESTIMONY 



have never seen a young black pup along the coast, nor 



giveMrtii^opVpfou ^ l^^ve never known the seals to haul out upon the 



coast. land along this coast and give birth to their young. I 



never killed a cow in milk along the coast, Within the 



Decrease. last five or six years seals have decreased in number 



very fast and are becoming very shy, and it is difficult 



to creep upon them and hit them with the spear. Years ago, the heads 



of seals along the coast would stick up out of the water almost as thick 



as the stars in the heavens, but since the white man, with so many 



schooners, have come, and began to shoot and kill them with the guns 



they have become very scarce. 



1 50 er cent -^l^iiost ouc-half of the seals 1 catch are cow seals 

 are pre/nanuemafe". and havc little ijups in them. The cow seals are the 

 When seals leave ^rst to Icavc the coast, but the young seals stay longer 

 coast. here, and are not all gone until in July. 



HiSH YuLLA (his X mark). 

 Witness: 



John P. McGlinn. 

 C. E. Gay. 



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

 1892. 



[seal.] Clakence p. Bkown, 



Notary Fuhlic hi mid for the JSiate of Wash'mfjton. 



Deposition of Thomas Zohiols, Malcah Indian, sealer. 



PELAaiC SEALING. 



State of Washington, 



County of Clallam, ss: 



Thomas Zoluoks, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a native 



Makah Indian and reside on the reservation at Neah 



xpenence. Bay, State of Washington, United States of America. 



I am 24 years old, and am by occupation a hunter and fisherman. I 



have been engaged in hunting seals ever since I was 9 or 10 years old. 



Until about 1880 I. hunted seals in large canoes, in which I always used 



the spear. In the last eight or ten years I have hunted for seals in small 



canoes carried on schooners, and sealed off Cape Flattery from 20 to 75 



miles, and as far south as the Columbia Eiver and north uj) to the passage 



into Bering Sea, but have never hunted for seals in those waters. About 



One-third of cows oue-third of all the cows I caught along the coast were 



caught are pregnant, cows with pups in them; uevcr caught any old bulls, 



and used to catch more gray pups than I do now. Most all the rest of 



the seals I caught have been 1 and 2 years old, and are about equally 



male and female. I never have seen or heard of a place along the coast 



Do not haul upon whcrc tlic seals haul out upou land, I never have seen 



*=°'»«^- any pups born the same year, nor have I ever caught 



any cow seals on the coast that were in milk. 



Seals are much scarcer now than they used to be six or eight years 



Decrease ^^®' ^^^J ^^^^^ to go tcu or fifteen iu a bunch, but 



now we seldom see more than two or three together. 



A great many that I have caught in the last thi-ee or four years have 



