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shot in them, aud many have been badly wounded. The seals first 

 appear oil' the cape about Christmas, but do not come Appear off cape 

 in the straits now like they used to, and they are very Flattery about Christ - 

 shy and wild. They appear to be passing to the north- ™^'*- 

 ward, up the coast, and in Jnly are all gone. In hunt- . . ^ , 



..^^ -, ' , in XI J. T T -M Tx- Are gone m July. 



mg- With spears 1 capture nearly all that I hit. If so 



many white hunters keep hunting the seal with shotguns as they do 



now, it will be but a short time before they will all be gone. 



his 



Thomas x Zolnoks. 



^^ mark. 



Witness: 



C. P. Brown. 

 C. Peterson. 



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

 1892. 

 [seal.] Clarence P. Brown, 



li^otary I'uhlio in und for the State of Washington. 



