APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 745 



Subscribed and declared by tlie said Hit-Hitli, commonly called 

 "Peter," before me, this 2nd day of i^ovember, A. d. 1892, at the village 

 of San Juan, on the Island of Vancouver, in the Province of British 

 Columbia. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



Declaration of Kas-ado, commonly called "To^n,''^ oftlieVillage of San Juan. 



Dominion of Canada, Frovince of British Columbia, 



I, Kas-ado, commonly called "Tom," of the village of San Juan, on 

 the west coast of Vancouver Island, do solemnly declare: 



1. I am a Pachenah Indian, and reside in San Juan, and am about 

 55 years of age. 



2. Have hunted seals ever since I was a boy — formerly from shore, 

 and latterly from schooners. 



3. In hunting seals off Vancouver Island the natives up to two years 

 ago or so used spears; 'since that time some have used guns, but all 

 jn-efer the spear because it does not frighten the seals as the gun does, 

 and because they always get all they hit with it. 



4. "We used to hunt from 10 to 15 miles from shore, and would get 

 from 10 to 10 seals in aday in our canoe; now we go out in schooners 

 and hunt from 30 to 50 miles from shore, and only get about four in 

 a- day in our canoe. 



5. Do' not think this is because the seals are less jilentiful, but 

 because they have been frightened away from shore by the white 

 hunters, who use guns. 



6. Seals come into Barclay Sound in great numbers about Christmas 

 time, following the run of herring. Seals are always more numerous 

 years that the herring are plentiful on the Halibut banks than when 

 the feed is scarce. 



7. We have always got many more females than males, and they are 

 mostly with pup. In a take of ten about six would be females, and of 

 that six three would be cows with pup, and the other three young 

 female, and of the males (four) two would be 1 year old or so, and the 

 other two 2 years old. We never get any old bulls off the coast, but 

 sometimes get cows that are not witli pup. ' We get a great number of 

 grey pups some seasons; grey pui)S are nearly always males, and the 

 brown pups are about half males and half females. This year we only 

 got a few grey pups. 



8. This year I sealed in the schooner "Fawn" off the north-west 

 coast, and followed the seals up as far as Kadiak. We were away two 

 months and a-half, and had eleven canoes and got 450 seals. We were 

 late getting away, or would have got a better catch. 



9. Seals are most plentiful along our coasts about Christmas time, and 

 we begin hunting then, and hunt for about three months before going 

 north. 



10. I have hunted five seasons in Behring Sea, and always use the 

 spear; we go out in a canoe, and each takes a spear, and if we come 

 across two or three seals sleeping together the man steering uses his 

 spear as well as me. I always go in the bow. In one canoe we often get 

 fifteen seals aday, but sometimes get out only two days a week on 

 account of fog and bad weather. 1 never sealed very near the Priby- 



