APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 765 



And I make tliis solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Clatmisk, 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 7th day 

 of November, a. d. 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Folicefor Canada. 



154 We, Wahka, or "Billy," Nahwyak, or "Tom," Olaphightup, 



Tsawassup, or "Joe," of the village of Alberni, in the District of 

 J^anaimo, on Vancouver Island, in the province of British Columbia, 

 and members of the Sechart tribe of Indians, and Tootush of the vil- 

 lage and district aforesaid, member of the Opichisset tribe of Indians, 

 do solemnly declare that : 



1. We were present and heard the deposition made by Clatswick 

 here present. 



2. That it was read over and explained to him and us in our own 

 language — the "Chinook," and we understood it, and the same is true 

 as regards what we have observed about the seal along this coast, and 

 is what we think about it, and we have not been promised, nor have 

 we received anything in consideration of making this declaration. 



3. I, "Billy," was up in Behring Sea this year, and what Clatswick 

 states about it was the same as I noticed it. I was in the "Aretas" in 

 Behring Sea this year. 



(Signed) Wahka, his x mark. 



JSTahvv^yak, ditto. 

 Claphighup, ditto. 

 TsAWASStJP, ditto. 

 Tootush, ditto. 

 Witnesses: 

 (Signed) Wm. Owen. 

 A. D. Laing. 



Declaration of John Margotich. 



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



I, John Margotich, of Ucluelet village, on the west coast of Van- 

 couver Island, in the Province of British Columbia, do solemnly 

 declare: 



1. About the last of April or beginning of May last I went on board 

 of the American Government steamer ("McArthnr") at the invitation 

 of the Captain, who asked uie about the seals coining to the coast of 

 the island and in Barclay Sound. I told him that the seals came in 

 every year amongst the islands, and were also found off the coast every 

 year. I said young pups were caught about the Sound and coast every 

 year; some years more and some less. I told him that the natives had 

 killed from 700 to 800 around the Sound and off the coast hunting from 

 the beach in cjinoes this year (1892). Never said I was agent for live 

 sealing-vessels, because I am not agent for any, but am simply a store- 

 keeper, and trade with the Indians. 1 could not have told the Captain 



