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10. Never heard of seals hauling out on the rocks in Barclay Sound 

 or on the coast, and never heard of their ijupping in the water or on 

 the kelp. 



11. Have no idea of how long the natives have been hunting seals 

 from the coast. 



12. What I have said has been read over and explained to me, and I 

 understand it, and nothing has been paid to nie or promised to me in 

 consideration of my making this declaration. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtne of " The Act respecting Extra-Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Walter Watt, his x mark. 



Witness : 

 (Signed) John T. Walburn. 



Declared before me, at the village of Albcrni, on the west coast of 

 Vancouver Island, in the Province of British Columbia, this 5th day of 

 November, A. d. 1802. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Folice for Canada. 



Declaration of Chileta, commonly called '■^JaclcP 



Dominion of Canada, Province of British Columbia, to tvit: 



I, Chileta, commonly called "Jack," of the Sechott tribe of Indians 

 on the Island of Vancouver, do solemnly declare that: 



1. I am a native of Vancouver Island, and belong to the tribe of 

 Sechott (Secharf?) Indians, and now reside at the village of Alberni at 

 the head of Barclay Sound. Vv^as living at Aqnis village in Toquat 

 Harbour at the time the " Boston," United States man-of-war, came there 

 this spring and I went on board of her. Dick came on shore and got 

 six of us to go on board. An old Indian said, "Don't go," but Dick said 

 if we came we would get paid ; and I was paid 1 dollar and given a large 

 plug of tobacco. I think the Captain took the money out of his pocket 

 and gave it to an old man who talked Chinook, Avhile a young man 

 wrote down what was said. The old man told me I would get paid for 

 what I told. Was afterwards paid 5 dollars for going to Ohiat and 

 Ucleulet, where I got theUcleulets to go onboard and make statements. 



2. Dick did the talking first while I was there, and I heard all he 

 said and remember it. Ttie white man commenced by saying, " The 

 reason we have come, we want to find out something about all kinds of 

 animals and fish — where there was most;" then we told him where we 

 got most of the tlift'erent kinds of skins and fish. Then he asked how 

 many seal-skins one canoe would get in a season, and I said a canoe 

 would get about 100. He asked me how many canoes were manned 

 from our village this season, and I think Dick said nineteen: and I said 

 twenty, our tribe cannot man more than that number of canoes. I 

 don't remember how many skins Dick told him we had got sealing off 

 shore, but I said about 300, and we all said they were got in the Sound 

 and off Nillugo Island. The old man asked if we ever hunted near the 

 American coast. I said when we go out in a schooner we sometimes 

 went to the southward of Cape Flattery, but a long way off shore, and 

 Dick said the same. That is all I remember telling him, but Dick was 

 with htm a Joug tiiuej I was wot with hiw very long. 



