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6. I only got 20 seals in my canoe this year hunting from shore, but 

 got 82 when I went up north. Last year I got 30 seals off the coast, 

 and did not go up north. This year the white hunters came in before 

 we had hunted long, and droye the seals out by their shooting. 



7. What I have here said has been read over to me and explained to 

 me in my own language by Andrew Laing, here present, and I under- 

 stand it and the same is true, and I have not been promised anything, 

 nor have I received anything, for making this statement. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Kach kach-AH, his x mark. • 



Witnesses: 

 (Signed) John T. Walburn. 

 A. D. Laing. 



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

 Vancouver Island, this 5th day of November, A. d. 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Pol ice for Canada, 



149 Declaration of Charlie and Harry. 



Dominion of Canada, Province of Britiiih Columbia^ to icit : 



We, Charlie and Harry, of the village of Alberni, in the district of 

 Nanaimo, in the Province of British Columbia, do solemnly declare: 



1. That we are natives of Sechart, and belong to the tribe of Indians 

 of that name. 



2. We have heard the deposition made by Kach-kach-ah, now i^resent, 

 and the same has been explained to us in our own language by an inter- 

 preter, and fully explained and read over, and the same is true. 



3. We have not been paid anything, nor has anything been j)romised 

 so as to induce us to make this affidavit. 



And we make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths.'' 



(Signed) Charlie, his x mark. 



Harry, ditto. 

 Witnesses : 

 (Signed) John T. Walburn. 

 A. D. Laing. 



Declared before me at the village of Alberni, on Vancouver Island, 

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

 1892, the same having been interpreted by A. D. Laing, and read over 

 and explained in the presence of A. D. Laing, and John T. Wallran. 



(Signed). A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada, 



