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without getting permission from the Governor-General of the 

 Primorstard Ablast at Vladivostok or Petropavlovsk; and that 

 masters of foreign vessels must under no circumstances leave 

 their sailors, as a punishment, in any uninhabited place in 

 Russian territory. For all such necessary purposes the Russian 

 Government had opened to foreign vessels Petropavlovsk, 

 the port of Kamchatka; but the Government forbade foreigners 

 to continue whaling while they lay in that port, and required 

 them to observe all port regulations and laws. 



Captain Spencer, whose boats were at the moment chasing 

 a whale, vigorously protested against the order and asked per- 

 mission to remain twenty days, but the Russian replied that his 

 orders left him no discretion. For $250 foreigners could get at 

 Petropavlovsk licenses to whale in the Okhotsk Sea; Captain 

 Spencer, having no license, must go. The captain recalled his 

 boats and departed; and the Whaleman's Shipping Ldst, in its 

 issue of December 7, 1875, published an account of the in- 

 cident 



Seventeen years after — at 3 :30 a.m., September 10, 1892, to be 

 exact — with no warning except that notice served to Captain 

 Spencer of the British barque Faraway, which tacitly admitted 

 that the Russian Government had no jurisdiction in the Okhotsk 

 Sea beyond the usual three-mile limit, a Russian officer boarded 

 the American whaling barque Cape Horn Pigeon, Thomas 

 Scullun master, in the Okhotsk Sea, at a point approximately 

 two thirds of the distance in a straight line from Patience Bay 

 to Iterup. He told the captain that Americans had no right to 

 whale in those waters, and arresting the vessel with all hands, 

 took her into Vladivostok. 



Messrs. J. and W. R. Wing of New Bedford were the manag- 

 ing owners of the barque; and Captain Scullun was sailing mas- 

 ter in her for his fourth annual voyage. 



Up to the day when the Russians boarded the barque, her 

 voyage was typical of the times and the trade. It was custom- 

 ary for such a vessel, owned in New Bedford, but outfitting at 

 San Francisco and there disposing of her catch, to sail from San 

 Francisco in the late fall or early winter and to return within a 



