756 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



7. I did not liunt from tlie shore at all this year, but hunted for 

 about two months from the schooner " 0. D. Raud," of Vaucouver, and 

 got 78 seals in my o\yn canoe along the coast up north. 



8. What I have said here has been wiitten down and read over to 

 me, and explained to me in my own language by Andrew Laing here 

 present. I understand it, and it is true. 



9. I have not been paid, nor have I been promised anything for say- 

 ing what I have said here, and I make this solemn declaration consci- 

 entiously believing the same to be true, and by virture of "The Act 

 respecting Extra- Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) Oquaghu (or Charlie), his x mark. 



Witnesses : 

 (Signed) John T. Walburn. 

 A. D. LAiNa. 



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. 1892, 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Folice for Canada. 



Declaration of Kach-1cach-aJi,or '■'■Peter. ^^ 



Dominion of Canada, Province of British Columbia, 



I, Kach-kach-ah, or "Peter," of Sechart, do solemnly declare that: 



1. I am a native of Sechart, and at present reside in Alberni, in the 

 district of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, in the Province of British 

 Columbia. 



2. I 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 fronr schooner. We commence about Christmas, 

 and hunt about two months from the shore, and then go out on schooner; 

 in hunting from shore do not go out more than 15 miles, and from 

 schooner about 50 or 60 miles. 



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

 gun and spear. The gun is given by the Cajjtain. If I can get close 

 enough I always use a spear when hunting from a schooner. If two 

 are sleeping together some of our tribe spear one and shoot the other, 

 but I always make sure of one with the spear. A good hunter will 

 never shoot when a seal is jumj^ing, but waits till close and can get a 

 good shot. None but white hunters shoot when seal are jumping. I 

 am not a good shot, and would rather use a spear. When first com- 

 menced using gun lost a good many, but now do not lose many. Would 

 never lose any I hit with the spear. 



4. Seals come into Barclay Sound every year in the month of Janu- 

 ary, and are more plentiful some years than others, and altogether 

 de])end on the herring; if they are plentiful there are plenty seals. 

 Seals aie as jilentitul as ever, but do not come in so close to shore now as 

 before white men commenced huntitig, and if white men are kept from 

 shooting them near shore they would be as plentiful as before. They 

 often come in shore very j)lentiful, but when the white man commences 

 hunting with the gun they go right away off shore scared. 



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

 now we get about the same of each. About half the cows have pups in 

 them; do not get many old bulls on the coast; they are very scarce. 



