752 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



3. I never told the old man that seals did not come in to Barclay 

 Sound, for we kill them every year away up, and I have killed them as 

 far up as Bird Kocks. None of us w^ho went on board the "Boston" 

 (United States) man of- war, had been sealing from a schooner up to 

 that time. About three weeks after the man-of-war was with us I went 

 north ou the schooner "Auritas," and at the time we were waiting for 

 that schooner to come from Victoria — we were lookhig for her to come 

 every day, and we got news she was being repaired in Victoria, and 

 would be along in a few days. I was only with the schooner about a 

 month, and left her at thelsland of Kadiak after my brother got killed 

 by the bursting af-a cannon which they were firing in a fog recalling 

 the canoes. During the time I was on board I got thirty-nine seals — 

 of these I got fifteen with the gun, and the rest with the spear. I lost 

 none that I hit with the gun as I never fire when they are far oft', and 

 after shooting them use njy spear as a gafl". Use the spear whenever I 

 can, but if I see them going to wake up, and they are not too far off, I 

 use the gun. I am a good shot with a gun, and if they are not too far 

 oft' I get every one I shoot. Am also a good hunter with a spear, and 

 very seldom miss when I throw, and if the spear fastens, always get my 

 seal unless the line breaks. 



4. I think the seails are just as plentiful as they used to be — we see 

 just as many when we go out in the schooners, but they are wilder on 

 account of being so much hunted with the gun, and harder to get, and 

 do not come so close to shore. 



5. Alofig the coast and in the Sound we get about as many females 



as males — can always tell them apart in the water if they are not 

 146 sleeping and their heads are out of water, as they are quite dif- 

 ferent. Never see any large bulls till we get up as far Queen 

 Clmrlotte Island. Old cows that are breeding have white whiskers, 

 and have got plenty of them, carrying no pup and having no milk. 

 Fully half the females caught on this coast have pups in them. 



(i. When in the "Aretas"' this year we went north j I have not hunted 

 near Cape Flattery for several years. 



7. What I have said here has been written down, and read over and 

 explained to me in my own tongue by Andrew Laing, and I understand 

 it, and it is true. 



8. I have not been paid anything, nor has anything been promised 

 me for saying what I have said. 



And I make tliis solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Chileta, his x mark. 



Witnesses : 

 (Signed) Wm. Owen. 

 A. D. Laing. 



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

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

 November, 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



