APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 755 



Aucl I make this solemn declariition conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Charles Hayaks, 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, A. d. 1802. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



Declaration of OquagJm, or " Charlie.''^ 



Dominion of Ga.'^K'DK^ Provirice of British Columbia, 



I, Oqnaghu, or Charlie, of Numnkamis, in the district of Naaaimo, 

 on Vancouver Island, do solemnly declare that: 



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

 of Ohiat tribe of Indians, and reside at Numukamis, on Barclay Sound. 



2. Am a seal-hunter, and have been so ever since I was a boy. Have 

 hunted in Barclay Sound and off the west coast of Vancouver Island, 

 both from shore and from schooner. Commence about Christmas and 

 hunt about two months from shore, and then go out in a schooner. 

 Hunting from shore go from 2 to 15 miles out, and in schooner from 50 

 to GO miles. 



3. In hunting from shore use mostly a spear, but from schooner both 

 gun and spear. The gun is always given by the captain. If I get close 

 enough I always use a spear, even when hunting from schooner. A 

 good hunter will never shoot when a seal is jumping or '' breeching," 

 but waits till it settles or gets close, and can get a good shot. None 

 but white hunters shoot when the seal is breeching. I never lose one I 

 hit using a spear. 



4. Seals come into Barclay Sound every year in the month of January, 

 and are more plentiful some years than others, and years the seals are 

 plentiful have noticed that the herring were very i^lentiful near shore. 



Seals are as plentiful as ever, but do not come in so close to shore 

 148 now as before white men commenced hunting, and if white men 



are kept from shooting them near shore they would be as plentiful 

 as ever. When the seal are very plentiful in shore the white hunters 

 come along and hunt them with a gun and they go right out, seeming 

 to get scared. 



5. Five and six years ago we used to get more male seals than females ; 

 now we get as many females as we do males. Do not get many grey 

 pups now. Fully half the cows we get have pups in them; the rest 

 are young females, or old cows without pups. Do not get many old 

 bulls on the coast; they are very scarce, but we get more of them the 

 farther north we go. We do not get many old cows without pups iu 

 them. 



6. I am a good shot, and would never shoot without I knew I was 

 going to get the seal in the same way, as I never use the spear unless 

 sure of getting the seal. I do not believe I would lose more than 2 

 seals iu 10 I would lire at with a gun. 



