776 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



tliat in 1886, my first year there, I got 212 along the coast and in the 

 sea, and in 1891, my last year tliere, I got 317 along tlie coast and in 

 the sea; this is perhaps because I am a better sealer now than then. 

 All the old cows I got there had milk. I never got one with a pup in 



her (there). 

 161 10. What has been here said by me has been written down and 



read over to me, and exjilained to me in my own language, and I 

 understand it, and it is true, and I have not been jjaid anything, 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) Atelu, his x mark, 



Witnesvses: 

 (Signed) John T. Walburn. 

 A. D. Laing. 



I, Ah-nah-yook, of Eefuge Cove, on the west coast of Yancouver 

 Island, do solemnly declare that: 



1. I am the Chief of the Manuawasset Indian tribe, and live in 

 Eefuge Cove, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. 



2. I have been sealing all my life along the coast up north, and in 

 Behring Sea. 



3. I have been present here while Atelu has told about the seal, and 

 have heard all he has said, and it has been written down and read over 

 and explained to him and me in our own language as what I have said, 

 and I understand it, and what he has said is what I think also; and I 

 have not been j)aid nor promised anything for saying this. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Ah-nah-yqok (or "Swan"), his x mark. 



Witnesses : 

 (Signed) John T. Walburn. 

 A. D. Laing. 



Declared before me by Atelu and Ah-nah-yook afore-mentioned, at 

 the village of Ahousat, in Clayoquot Sound, on the west coast of Van- 

 couver Island, this 10th day of November, a. d. 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



Declaration of Qui-an-Ah, or ^^ Punch." 



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



I, Qui-an-Ah, or "Punch," of the village of Ahousat, on Clayoquot 

 Sound, in the Province of British Columbia, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I am a native of the west coast of Vancouver Island, and live 

 in the village of Ahousat, on Clayoquot Sound, and am a member of the 

 Ahousat tribe of Indians. 



2. I am a sealer, and have been so all my life since I was strong 

 enough to throw a spear, and have sealed from the shore in canoes and 



