780 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Signed and declared before me at tlie village of Ahousat, in Clayo- 

 quot Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Province 

 of British Columbia, this 11th day of November, A. d. 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada. 



Declaration of High eit-Liclc-Sheel. 



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



I, High-eit-Lick-Sheel, of the Ahousat tribe of Indians, in Clayoquot 

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



1. I live at Ahousat, in Clayoquot Sound, on the west coast of Van- 

 couver Island, 



2. Am a seal-hunter, and have been so all my life since I could steer 

 a boat or handle a spear. 



3. Seals do not come into this Sound, and we natives prefer sealing 

 from schooners than from the shore. 



4. I use both the spear and gun, as do all my tribe, and we like one 

 as well as the other. A good hunter with a gun need not lose any more 

 seals than with a spear. I lose very few with either, as I never shoot 

 or throw a spear when a seal is beyond 3 or 4 fathoms' distance from 

 me. After 1 shoot I paddle up quickly and spear the seal if I see he is 

 sinking. 



5. Seals are more plentiful some years than others, just as with ducks 

 and other birds and fish. Have noticed that when the feed is plentiful 

 the seals are also plentiful, and I do not think they are fewer than 

 seven or eight years ago, though they are wilder from having so many 

 hunting them and using guns. 



6. Captains of schooners pay us by the skin. So we have no reason 

 ibo care whether seals are cows or bulls, or large or small. Some years 

 we get more bulls than cows, and some more cows than bulls. This 

 year I got a good many pups. Sometimes I have got old cows without 

 carrying pups and without having milk. 



7. Except the year 1891 I have never missed a season from hunting 

 seals, and now always hunt from a schooner alone. Have been four 



times into Behring Sea — first in 1886 and last in 1890. I was 

 104 in the schooners " Grace," " Black Diamond," " Pathfinder," and 



" Sapphire." I got 96 skins when in the " Grace," and met with 

 an accident, being shot in the. arm, and had to stop hunting. I cannot 

 remember what I got on any of the other schooners. This year I got 

 61 skins. We only went as far as Kadiak. 



8. What has been here said by me has been written down and read 

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

 and it is true, and I have not been given anything, nor has any been 

 promised 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 Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) High-eit-Liojv-SheeLj his x mark. 



Witnesses : 

 (Signed) John T. Walburn. 

 A. D. Laing. 



