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liim there were fewer seals, but that I thouglit there were just as many 

 as ever, only farther off shore from being so much hunted by white men, 

 and were harder to get. Two men on board the man-of-war spoke 

 €hiuook; the Captain was there when we were, and heard what we said. 



3. I am not a good shot with a gun, and never use one, not even when 

 going out in schooner; always use a spear, which is about 2 fathoms 

 and 2 spans of the hand long, and would throw it from 5| to 6 fathoms 

 distance, and would almost always get the seal. 



4. Years fish are most plentitul the seals come in greatest numbers, 

 and when we cut them open find all kinds of fish in them. 



. 5. We get of male and female seals about the same number along this 

 coast. Never got a large bull here, all are half grown and pups. 

 156 Of the females one-half would have pups in them, and the rest 

 would be young cows 5 have got a few old ones without having 

 pups in them ; all old cows have white whiskers. If the seals are asleep 

 in the water I cannot tell whether they are male or female, but if they 

 raise their heads out of the water I can always tell, for the bull has a 

 long neck and very short big head, but the cow has a short neck and 

 a longer head. 



6. I have been hunting seal for about fifteen years, and am about 30 

 years of age. Cannot say if we got more male seals this year than five 

 or six years ago, for some years we get more bulls than cows, and some 

 more cows than bulls. 



7. After we had got through talking on the "Boston" (United States) 

 man-of-war last spring, we were paid, as had been promised, 1 dollar 

 each to the others, and 5 dollars to me. I think it was the Captain 

 who paid us. We also got a plug of tobacco each. 



8. I have received no money or other thing from any one for making 

 this statement, but have done it of my own free will. 



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

 me by Andrew Laing, here j^resent, in my own language, and the same 

 is true. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) EnENCUESSUT, 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 Police for Canada. 



Declaration of Imihap. 



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



I, Imihap, of the village of Alberni, in the district of Nanaimo, in the 

 Province of British Columbia, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I am a native of Vancouver Island, and one of the Sechart 

 tribe of Indians, and reside near the village of Alberni. 



2. I was living at the village of Aquis, in Toquat Harbour, at the 

 mouth of Barclay Sound, in Ai)ril last, and was taken on board the 



