550 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Shewisli. — Uses both gun and spear. Of 46 shot this year 4 were 

 lost, ^' the canoe was so full of skins that we could not paddle up 

 quickly enough, and they sank." 



Glat-'ka'koi never loses a seal he hits with a spear. He told United 

 States Agents that a good hunter would lose only 2 out of 10 or 32 

 [shot at] ; a medium hunter miglit lose two or three. 



KicMana heard what was said by Clat-ka-koi, and says that it is true. 



ClicTc-la-hou-to says he is a pretty good shot with a gun, and would 

 not lose more than 2 out of 10, and not that many if he hit them. 



Keshvqua and Glatchu, having heard what Click-la hou-to said, testify 

 that they believe as he does. 



Cedar-Jcanim never loses a seal when his spear has become fastened. 



Atelu uses both the gun and the spear, and if two seals are together 

 spears one and shoots the other. He is just as certain with the gun aa 

 with the spear, and would not lose more than 1 in 10 tired at. 



Ah-nah-yoo1{, having heard what Atelu said, states that he thinks as 

 Atelu does. 



Qui-an-ah never shoots nor throws a spear when the seal is more than 

 6 or 6 fathoms off. He would not lose 1 in 10 [shot or thrown at] with 

 either spear or gnu. 



Enocto says that he is not a very good shot, and prefers the spear to 

 the gun. He hardly ever loses a seal when using the spear, and when 

 using the gun is careful with it, and generally gets the seal. He does 

 not remember to have lost a seal he hit. 



Qiiat-loose or ^^Sam,''^ Fred, Suithatchest, Peter , ShooTcsa or "Joe,^^ 

 Keelthlah, John Wriglha, YacoostUsh or " George,''^ MucMemiclc, Kawari' 

 mess, and Sheeuah say: "We are all seal-hunters, and use both the 

 spear and the gun, and would just as soon use the one as the other, 

 and are just as sure of getting the seal with one as the other, and 

 scarcely lose any, and no good hunter need lose many. All our tribe 

 use the gun, both young and old, and like it." 



High-eit-Uclc-sheel states that he uses both gun and spear, and that 

 he and all his tribe like them equally well. "A good hunter with a 

 gun need not lose more seals than with a spear." He shoots and 

 throws a spear when the seal is 3 or 4 fathoms from him. 



Gharlie Quisto uses a spear only, and seldom misses with it. 



See-ah-sum and Weeh-tiu have had the same experience as Quisto. 



Joseph says : " We do not lose any seals that we shoot. If very close, 

 we use the spear; if not, the gun. We get more this way, for if two 

 are sleeping we shoot one and spear the other." 



Johnny Hammond and Jack, having heard what Joseph said, state 

 that what he says has been their own experience. 



11 rV. — statements respecting the Number of Seals which may escape 

 Gapture after being wounded by Hunters at Sea. 



John Townsend, three years' experience as hunter, says: "There are 

 very few seals shot at and badly enough wounded to die that are not 

 secured." 



Gaptain Abel Douglas, eight years' experience — three as hunter, five 

 as master and hunter — states that a seal that is badly wounded is 

 almost certain to be got. 



