APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 767 



I, E. Mayiiard, of the city of Victoria, in tlie Province of Britisli 

 Columbia, make oath and say: 



That I acted as interpreter for Mr. Maconn while he questioned 

 Joseph, Jack, and Johnny, three Clayoquot Indians, whose statements 

 are hereto annexed. Two of them understood English fairly well, but 

 while the questions were asked in English, I explained their meaning 

 to them in Chinook. 



I have read over these statements as set down by Mr. Macoun, and 

 swear that they are as made by the Indians, and that they were not 

 influenced in any way, and received no consideration for the statements 

 they made. 



(Signed) E. Maynard. 



Sworn before me at Victoria, this 6th day of October, 1892. 



(Signed) A. L. Belyea, 



A Notary Public in and for the Province of Britisli Columbia. 



Declaration of WiencJiessut, commonly called '■^Biclc.^^ 



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



I, Ehenchessut, commonly called " Dick," one of the Sechart tribe of 

 the village of Allierni, on Vancouver Island, do solemnly declare that; 



1. I am a native of the west coast of Vancouver Island, of the Sechart 

 tribe of Indians, and now reside in Alberni, but in April last was living 

 at Aquis, in Toquat Harbour, in Barclay Sound, and was there at the 

 time the "Boston" (United States man-of-war) was there, and went 

 on board of her after being asked to do so by some person who came 

 ashore from her in a boat. The person who came ashore was one Wil- . 

 loughby, whom I knew a long time ago when he was Indian Agent at 

 Neah Bay. He was a man with grey hair and very red face. He asked 

 me if any Indians lived in that house (pointing to one on the beach). 

 I said, "ISTo, but there were six a little way oil"." He asked me could 

 not I get them to come on board. I said, "It is too far for the old men 

 to come." He said, "You get them to come on board, and I will give 

 them 1 dollar apiece and 5 dollars for yourself." I then went and got 

 the six men. They were Clappa, Chakatt, Napoyook, Chileta (" Jack"), 

 Ceissamilt, and Imihap, now present with me. None of them were 

 Chiefs, and did not say they were. I am not a Chief, and never said I 

 was one. There were no other natives with us on the ship at that time, 

 and we were all together when the questions were asked us, but only 

 Chileta (or " Jack") spoke besides myself Mr. Willoughby questioned 

 us. I told him that our tribe and the Opichissets manned thirty canoes 

 to hunt seals from the shore this last season. He never asked me how 

 many skins the whole tribe had got, but how many one canoe would get 

 from the shore in a season, and I told him thirty. He then asked how 

 many one canoe would get from a schooner in a season, and I said about 

 forty hunting off the coast in a schooner. (I never went to Behring Sea.) 



2. I told him we got skins every season inside of Village Island, in 

 Barclay Sound. I (lould not have told him anything else, for I told him 

 I had got them as far up asEcool. I did not tell him I have been hunt- 

 ing oft' Cape Elattery this year, for I have not been sealing there for 

 three years or more. The last schooner I was there in was the "Anna 

 Beck." I now remember it was five years ago. I did not hunt from 

 schooner at all this year, but altogether from the beach. I did not tell 



