746 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN, 



loff Islands; tlie nearest was one year in tlie "Minnie," when in a clear 

 day the Captain pointed them out, and I could just see them. 



11. In Behring Sea we always got more young bulls than cows. 

 About half tbe cows got would be in milk, the other half being young 

 females and cows without pups in tbem. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act respecting Extrajudicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Tom, his x mark. 



Witnesses: 

 (Signed) John T. W alburn. 

 A. D. Laing. 



Declared before me at the village of San Juan, on Vancouver Island, 

 in the Province of British Columbia, this 2ud day of November, A. d. 

 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



142 Declaration of SchouUivicIc, commonly called " Jinl^sP 



Dominion of Cais ad a, Province of British Columbia ., 



I, Schoultwick, commonly called " Jinks," do solemnly declare: 



1. I am a native of the west coast of Vancouver Island, and a resident 

 of the village of Ohiat. 



2. Am a hunter and tisherman, and hunt seals along the west coast 

 every year, commencing about January and continue for about two 

 months, then go north. 



3. Wlien the seals are inside of Barclay Sound and in shore along 

 the coast we hunt from shore in canoes when the weather will permit; 

 at that time of the year the weather is very stormy, and we get out 

 only about two days a week; this commences a little after Christmas, 

 and continues about two months. 



The white hunters follow the seal in from their schooners, and shoot 

 them and frighten them out, and makes them wild. Two men go in a 

 canoe, one to steer and the other to use the spear. Hunting from shore 

 we use the spear altogether, but from the schooner both spear and gun. 



4. The seals are always niost numerous when the herring are most 

 plentiful, which they follow as far as head of Barclay Sound, and we 

 kill them there every year if the bait go that far. 



5. Along the coast and in the Sound tlie seal were not as plentiful in 

 1892 as in 1891, and the reason was the white hunters came around 

 before we had a chance to go out, and using the guns scared them off 

 shore. 



6. Have only used the gun for two years, and am not a good shot, 

 and only pack it along for nothing; it is the same with all the rest of 

 my tribe; all i^refer the spear; none of the tribe are good gun-shots; 

 with a spear we never lose one we hit, but many with the gun. 



7. Around here we get more females than males, but farther north 

 more males than females. Never get any big bulls on this coast, but 

 get pups or half-grown seals. Natives do not keep any record of num- 

 ber of seals taken, nor of males and females, but think more females 

 are got here than males, and lots of them are old ones without pups; 

 sometimes would take ten seals, and find no females with pup, and 



