APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 781 



Signed and declared before me at the village of San Juan, on the 

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

 this 12th day of November, A. d. 1892. 



(Signed) A. P. Sherwood, 



A Commissioner of Police for Canada, 



Declaration of Charlie Quisto, 



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



I, Charlie Quisto, of the village of San Juan, on the west coast of 

 Vancouver Island, do solemnly declare that: 



1. I am a native of the west coast of Vancouver Island, am a Pach- 

 enah Indian, and reside in the village of San Juan, and am the Chief 

 of my tribe. 



2. I am a hunter and fisherman, and have hunted seals since I was a 

 boy, from the beach and from schooners. Have hunted from Columbia 

 Kiver to Barclay Sound, and from there to the Behring Sea. 



3. Eight after Christmas we move from here to Kah-ligbt (or K'Lyde), 

 on the coast where there is a nice beacb, and we stay there for a month 

 before we are able to hunt, as the weather is so bad. That is where I 

 saw my first seal, and I have seen them up the Straits as far as Kace 

 Rocks, about 3 miles from shore. I hunt from the shore for about two 

 months, and then go north in the schooner. 



4. I always use a spear, and prefer it to the gun. Have never been 

 with a white man or other Indian who used a gun, and do not know 

 anything about it, but I don't think it is any good; lots of my people 

 have been hurt with them. When picking one up in a hurry, when 

 seeing a seal, it is liable to go oft" and hurt or kill the other man in the 

 canoe. All my tribe want to use the spear only, as the gun makes the 

 seal wild. Wlien we are paddling up on a seal some one shoots with a 

 gun and it raises its head and looks round and goes off. I throw the 

 spear from 3 to 5 fathoms, and seldom miss with it. 



5. The seals come to this coast just as many as ever, but there are so 

 many white hunters now hunting with the gun that they frighten them 

 right away, and make them wilder and harder to kill. 



0. 1 did not hunt from the shore this year, but went out in the 

 schooner "Fawn," and got 39 skins. The catch for the schooner was 

 430 with 10 canoes and 1 boat. We went as tar north as Kadiak last 

 year (1891) ; I got 100. We went into the Behring Sea, and the schooner 

 "Borealis" got a little over 1,000, with 12 canoes and 1 boat. I do not 

 remember how many I got other years. 



7. Some years seals are more plentiful than others, and years the 

 herring are plentiful the seals are always very plentiful. 



8. Taking it altogether, I get about half cows and half bulls — young 

 and old — but never get any of the large bulls till we get north as far as 

 Sitka. 



Almost all the large cows have pups in them that we get along the 

 coast, but we get some that have no pups. When in Behring Sea we 

 get cows with milk and no pupsj have never got a cow carrying a pup 

 after getting into Behring Sea. It is six years now since the white 

 hunters came to take us north to Behring Sea, but about twenty years 

 since they first came to take us hunting off this coast. In 1880 we got 

 paid 2 dollars a skin, but for the last two years we have got 4 dollars. 



9. 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, 



