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10. Notlimg has been paid me, nor has anything been promised to 

 me, in consideration of my making* the foregoing statement, which I 

 have read over and have found correct. 



(Signed) J. L. Carthrat [?Cartitat]. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8th day of December, 1892. 

 [seal.] (Signed) Lincoln Sonntag, Notary Public. 



140 II.— TESTIMONY OF INDIANS ENGAGED IN PELAGIC SEALING 

 AND IN INDEPENDENT SEAL-HUNTING. 



Declaration of Jim, of PaclienaJi, Vancouver, 



(A.) . 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Cohimhia, City of Victoria, 



I, Jim, of Pachenah, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, sealer, do 

 solemnly declare: 



1. That I am the owner and master of the sealing-schooner " Moun- 

 tain Chief." 



2. I know a white man named Greenleaf; he was on my schooner last 

 year. He was navigator for me one month. I did not get one skin 

 while Greenleaf was with me. I was not out sealing that month; I 

 could not get any canoes to go out. Greenleaf Avent from Victoria in 

 my schooner to Chuckleesit, on west coast, and when I could get no 

 canoes I brought my schooner back to Pachenah, where Greenleaf left 

 her and came to Victoria. Greenleaf never was out with me catching- 

 seals last year or any year. 



3. My Indian name is " Xarwassan." 



4. Greenleaf often asked me to take opium on my schooner to take 

 down west coast to send to California. He wanted to hire my schooner 

 to take opium to California, but I would not have it on board, Green- 

 leaf was a snniggler. 



5. That I use spears on my schooner to get seals; very few times use 

 gun. I was never in Behring Sea till tliis year, and then I got seized. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act resi)ectiug Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Jim Karwassan, his x mark. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Jim Narwassan before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing at and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 2iul day of 

 November, a.d. 1892, the same having been first read over and explained 

 to the said Jim Narwassan, who fully understood the same. 



[SEAL,] (Signed) Arthur L. Belyea, 



A Notary Public in and for the Province of British Columbia. 



