772 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



10. Ever since I can remember we have been hunting seals in Barclay 

 Sound and on this coast of Vancouver Island, and generally hunt with 

 two in a canoe, but at the beginning of the season we go out sometimes 

 with three in a canoe, as the weather is often very bad. The bow- man 

 uses the spear. At the beginning of the season we would not go out 

 any farther than we could see the waves breaking on the rocks, but as 

 the weather gets better we go out as far as 20 miles. Got more males 

 five or six years ago along this coast than we do now. Don't know 

 any reason for this, unless it is because they stay up in the Behring 

 Sea and feed there. 



11. If seals are not asleep in the water, and have their "heads" up, 

 I can always tell a bull from a eow, as the bulls have a very long neck 

 and short big head, and have black whiskers; with the very old ones 

 it may be turning white at the roots. The cows have short necks, and 

 a longer head, and grey whiskers if very old. 



12. None of our tribe use the gun hunting from shore, as the old 

 men get very angry if we do, but when away with the schooners and 

 we are given a gun, some of the younger men use them. 



13. VVhat has been said by me has been Avritten down and read over 

 and explained to me in my own language, and I understand it, and it 

 is true, and I have received nothing, nor has anything been promised 

 me, for saying it. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Hat-la-Cuntl, his x mark. 



Witnesses: 

 (Signed) Gordon F. Grant. 

 A. D. Laing. 



Declared before me at the village of Ucluelet, in Barclay Sound, on 

 the west coast of Vancouver Island, this 9th day of November, A. d. 

 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioned' of Police for Canada, 



Dedaration of Walce-a-N'en-N'isJi. 



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



I, Wake-a-Nen-Nish, of the village of Ucluelet, on Vancouver Island, 

 do solemnly declare that: 



1. I am the Chief of the Ucluelet tribe of Indians, and live at the 

 village of Ucluelet, but am now staying at Nahmint, on the Alberni 

 Canal, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. 



2. I was on board of the "Boston" (United States) man-of-war at 

 Ucluelet in April of this year. Sechart Jack (Chileta) and a white man 

 came after me and took me out to where she was anchored in the har- 

 bour in front of our village. I was asked many questions, and said 

 there were not many seals in the Sound and along the coast this year, 

 but last year (1891) there were plenty. Said the reason was that this 

 year white men had come in and hunted them away with guns, and 

 made them wild. Told that the seals did not haul out and breed in the 

 Sound or on the shore, but that a long time ago the seals used to have 

 their young in the water on this coast. I only know this because my 



