778 APPENDIX TO COIINTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



11. What Las been liere said by me has been written down and read 

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

 it, and it is true, and I have not been paid nor promised anything 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) Qui-an-Ah, his x mark. 



Witnesses : 

 (Signed) Gordon F. Grant. 

 A. D. Laing. 



Declared before me at the village of Ahousat, in Clayoquot Sound, 

 on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, this 10th day of November, A. D. 1892, 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



Declaration of Enocto. 



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



I, Enocto, of the Ahousat tribe of Indians, in Clayoquot Sound, in 

 the Province of British Columbia, do solemnly declare that: 



1. I live at the village of Ahousat, in Clayoquot Sound, on the west 

 coast of Vancouver Island, and am one of the Ahousat tribe of Indians. 



2. I am a seal-hunter, and have always been one since 1 have been 

 strong enough; have sealed from the beach and from schooners, and all 

 along the coast into Behring Sea. I have never missed a season since 

 1 first hunted; for the last few years, since the schooners have been 

 coming here, I have not hunted from the beach, because I like the 

 schooner better, and it is easier to get on board if the wind comes up. 



3. I hunted from the schooner " Sapphire " for the last four years. I 

 have always "headed" the canoe, and do the spearing or shooting, as 

 I use both the gun and spear. I am not a very good shot, and like the 

 spear best. The spear does not make a noise the same as the gun, and 

 does not make the seals wild or wake them up if sleeping. I hardly 

 ever lose one with the spear, and I always use it if I can, but if the 

 seal is waking I use the gun, and am careful with it, and generally get 

 the seal. 1 use my spear as a gaff after I shoot, and don't remember 

 when I have lost the seal I have hit. 



4. This year is the first I have not been in the Behring Sea for sev 

 eral years; we only went as far as Kadiak. I got GO skins; in 1891 

 I got 280; in 1890, "llO; and in 1889, 140; and cannot remen)ber what 

 I got other years. I think the seals are just as thick now as some years 

 ago, but they are wilder, and do not sleep as they used to, and are 

 harder to get. Some years there are more than others, and years the 

 herring are iilentiful along the coast there are more seals. 



5. We first see them off this coast from a month and a-half to two 

 months after Christmas, and they stay for about two months and a-half. 

 The small ones come first. 



6. I cannot say whether I get more cows than bulls, or bulls than 

 cows, for we are paid by the skin, and never notice what they are; we 

 get quite a few old cows not carrying pups and not having milk; get 

 quite a number of cows carrying pups along the coast, but have got 

 them carrying pup and with milk after passing Kadiak. Never get any 



