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is 2 fathoms and a spauloug, but is not always the same length, as the 

 stronger the man the longer the spear he can use. I never lost a seal 

 when the spear fastened ; would not throw more than two lengths of the 

 spear, and would very seldom miss at that distance, and it always 

 fastens when it hits. 



4. In all my sealing I have got about as many males as females; this 

 is along the coast and in the Sound. Have never been to Behring Sea. 

 Not all the cows have pups in them, only the very old ones. Never saw 

 a cow with milk along the coast. IN ever saw a white whiskered cow — 

 old cow — along the coast that had not a pup in her. 



6. Seals come into Barclay Sound every year, and I have seen them 

 right in here where the boat is anchored, and saw them in here last 

 spring. Some years ago they were very plentiful; years the herring are 

 veryidentiful in the Sound and along the coast seals are very plentiful, 

 and come in close to land. Up to the time i gave up hunting three 

 years ago I did not notice that the seals were less in number than six 

 or seven years ago, and I don't think there is any danger of their all 

 being killed off; there will always be skins. 



6. What I have here'said has been written down and read over to me 

 and explained in my own language, and is true, and I have not been 

 paid anything, nor has anything been promised me, for saying it. 



7. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Cedar-Kanim, his x mark. 



Witnesses : 

 (Signed) Gordon F. Grant. 

 A. D. LAiNa. 



IGO I, At-Clappa, or "John," of the village of Ucluelet aforesaid, 



do solemnly declare: 



1. That 1 am a native of the same tribe as Cedar-Kanim, and live 

 close by him, and have heard what has been here said by him, and it 

 is true, and is what I think. I have killed five old cows with two pups 

 in them. 



2. I have not hunted for three years myself, because I have been very 

 unlucky in losing live of my children in the last three years, and felt 

 very down-hearted, and not like hunting. 



3. What Ave have said has been written down and read over to us, 

 and explained to us in our own language, and we understand it, and it 

 is true. Nothing has been paid to me or promised to me for saying 

 what I have said. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of " The Act respecting Extrajudicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) At-Olappa, 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 i)th day of November, A. D. 

 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



