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grandfatlier told me. He told me that tlie Indiaus formerly hunted the 

 seals for tlieir food, but uoV they hunted them for their skins. White 

 man asked me how long I thought it would be before there would be no 



skins, and I said that would be impossible; there would always 

 159 be lots of skins, but they would be harder to get, because the 



seals were wilder, and did not come in so close to shore since they 

 were hunted by the white man. White man ("Boston" man) asked me 

 if the musket was an 3^ good for hunting seals. I said "No." He said, 

 "I think not too." The "Boston" (United States) man asked me if the 

 white men hunting from the schooners with the musket didn't lose two 

 out of five seals he would shoot. I said, "Yes ; that is what they tell me." 



3. 1 have not hunted for ten years, as I am too old ; do not know how 

 old I am, but I remember when my tribe was very large, and now there 

 are only 300 — men, women, and children included. Never hunted with 

 the musket (gun), and never was with any one who did so, and only 

 know what 1 have been told about it. Have always noticed that some 

 years the seal were more plentiful than others, and some years we would 

 get more, great many more, than others: years that herring were plenti- 

 ful were the best years for the seal to come in shore. 



4. Before I went to talk with the white Tyee (Chief) I was told I would 

 get paid for it, and after I was done talking was paid 2 dollars, and a 

 plug of tobacco was also given me. 1 think it was the Captain who 

 paid me; he had a blue coat on with brass buttons, and peaked cap. 

 There were six wliite men there when I was talking, and an old man, 

 not the Captain, asked me the questions. 



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

 in my own language by Andrew Laing, an interpreter, and I understand 

 it, and the same is true, and I have not been promised anything, nor 

 have I received anything, in consideration of making this declaration. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) . Wake-a-jSTen-Nish, his x mark. 

 Witnesses: 

 (Signed) Wm. Owen. 

 A. D. Laing. 



Declared before me, at the village of Nahmint, on the west coast of 

 Vancouver Island, this 8th day of November, A. d. 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



Declaration of Ccdar-Kanim. or ^^ Peter. ^"^ 



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



I, Cedar-Kanim, or " Peter," of the village of TJcleulet, in Barclay 

 Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, do solemnly declare that: 



1. I live at the village of TJcleulet, and am a native of the west coast 

 of Vancouver Island, and belong to the Ucleulet tribe of Indians. 



2. I have been a seal-hunter all my life since I was able to steer a 

 boat or handle a spear, but have not hunted seals at all for the past 

 three years, as I am getting too old, and let my boy hunt for me. 



3. When I hunted I always hunted with a spear, and never with a 

 gun. Have hunted both from the beach and from schooner. The spear 



