EXTRANEOUS ADVENTURES 299 



4. Expenses, board, and lodging of officers and crew while 



ashore 210 



5. Amount of captain's hotel expenses, etc 50 



6 . Amount claimed for general expenses, including cost of cables, 



fees for legal advice, and clerk hire, boats, carriages, etc. 3,040 



Total, United States gold $49,500 



Total amount being $49,500 United States gold currency. 

 I will agree to the above indemnity, provided that I am not put to any 

 further expense and am allowed to proceed at once to the United States, and 

 will guarantee on behalf of myself and owners that no further proceedings 

 will be taken in this matter, 



I am, sir, yours, respectfully, 

 (Signed) Thomas Scullun, Master, 



Cape Horn Pigeon. 

 Rear-Admiral p. Tyrtow, 

 Commander-in-chief Russian Naval Forces in the Pacific. 



The next morning an officer came on board the barque and 

 announced that she was free to sail. Captain Scullun spent 

 three days in refurnishing with potatoes, cabbages, and wood; 

 then, on October 1st, they hove up the anchor and, the season 

 for whaling being so nearly over, sailed for San Francisco, where 

 the barque anchored on November 5th. 



Back again in his own country. Captain Scullun went to New 

 Bedford and told the story in detail to the owners. They, of 

 course, immediately wrote to the United States minister and he 

 in turn wrote to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re- 

 questing an investigation of the matter. But the Russians 

 move slowly and our minister had received no answer to his note 

 when, in May, 1893, he wrote them again. In June answer 

 came that the committee appointed to look into the matter re- 

 ported that the arrest had been made ''owing to a misunder- 

 standing," and that they — a trifle late, it would seem — had 

 ordered the release of the Cape Horn Pigeon. Further, they 

 declared, in the usual flowery formality of international "back 

 talk," that they considered the demand of $45,000 for whales, 

 "which could have been taken had not the voyage been inter- 

 rupted," excessive: that $2,500 was damages aplenty. Evi- 

 dently damages, large or small, were due; that much, at least, 

 they admitted. 



