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2. Have linnted seals all my life since I could throw a spear, and 

 have hunted from the beach and in the Sound, and also oft" the coast in 

 schooners, and also in Behring Sea, and have never lost a year since I 

 first went hunting. 



3. I don't notice any diftereuce in the number of seals I see now when 

 out sealing than I did when I first went out sealing, and they come 

 here in the Sound as plentiful as ever, and stay for a month to six 

 weeks, but this year they only stayed about three weeks, as eight boats 

 with white hunters were here hunting from the shore with guns, which 

 scared the seals and drove them out. When I would be paddling up 

 on a seal which was sleeping, the white man would fire a gun at another 

 seal and my seal would wake up and go oft' before I was able to throw 

 my spear. They are wild since the white man commenced hunting with 

 the gun. I have never used a gun. 



4. In sealing in Barclay Sound and from the beach this year my 

 canoe got 35 seals, and from the schooner, along the coast and up north, 

 I got G7. I went north and sealed all along the coast from Barclay 

 Sound to Mount Fairweather in the schooner " Borealis." The number 

 of skins taken altogether on the schooner was 043. Last year I got oO 

 sealing from the beach and in the Sound, and did not go out at all in 

 the schooner. 



5. I got about the same number of males as females altogether 

 158 but as I went north I think I got more males than down here, 

 and I got one very large old bull oft" Mount Fair\Yeather, which 

 I speared through the heart, and it died at once and floated on top .of 

 the water. I don't ever remember having got an old cow that had no 

 pup in her and no milk. Did not get any grey pups this year; they 

 were very scarce, and I only got four last year, and one of these I 

 caught by the flipper and threw it in the canoe alive; they sleep much 

 sounder than the old ones. 



6. I have not been in Behring Sea since 1887, when I went there in 

 the "Black Diamond" and got 130 skins myself. I don't remember how 

 many were got altogether. I think I got more cows than bulls up 

 there, but cannot remember very well. The first four days I was in 

 the Sea I killed some cows with pups in them, and for a week "we got 

 very few skins, but the captain showed a large school of herring and 

 said, "If the weather is fine to-morrow you will get lots of skins." We 

 did so, and we got a lot. We afterwards got quite a number of old 

 cows with milk. We got no pups there, and the bulls were all old or 

 half-grown. Was never near the Pribyloft" Islands but once, and that 

 was when the fog was very ihick; when it lifted, and we saw the shore, 

 we made sail and stood oft" to sea. 



7. We use almost every part of the seal — sell the skin to the white 

 man and eat the meat and save the oil. On the schooners the white 

 man takes the skin oft" the seal and throws the carcass overboard, 

 except what is wanted to eat immediately. 



8. I know of no ])lace along the coast of Vancouver Island or in Bar- 

 clay Sound where the seals haul out and have their young. 



9. Seals are first seen along this coast about Christmas time, and are 

 seen till about the time the berries begin to get ripe, but we only hunt 

 them for about three months from the shore, when we go away in the 

 .schooners. I have always seen the big ones come first, and towards the 

 middle of the season the smaller ones come. They are always most 

 plentiful when the herring are thickest, and I have seen them following 

 the herring right in here, where we now are — in Ucluelet Harbour — iu 

 the night time, and have gone out and killed them. 



