56 CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. - 



notice is alluded to by M. de Giers as '' relative to fishing, 

 liuiiting, and to trade in the Eussian waters of the Pacific," 

 and as relative to fishing and hunting in ^^ our Pacific 

 waters." 



Ill the same correspondence the Secretary of State of 

 the United States and the United States Minister at St. 

 Petersburg similarly speak of " Pacific Coast fisheries" 

 and "our Pacific Ocean fisheries." 



Writing on the 8th (20th) May, 1S82, to Mr. Hoffman, 

 the American Minister at St. I'etersbvirg, M. de Giers, 

 said: 



50th Cong., 2nd Referring to the exchanue of commnuicatious wliicli Las taken place 



Sess., S^enate^Ex. jjetweeu us on the subject of a notice published by our Consul at 



262. ' Yokohama relative to lishing, hunting, and to trade in the liussian 



See Appenilix, waters of the racljic, and in reply to the note which you addressed to 



vol. ii, Part II, me^ dated the 15th (27th) March, I am now in a position to give you 



the following information : 



A notice of the tenour of that annexed to your note of the 15th 

 March was, in fact, published by our Consul at Yokohama, and our 

 Cousul-Geueral at San Francisco is also authorized to publish it. 



This measure refers only to i)rohibited industries and to the trade 

 in contraband; the restrictions which it establishes extend strictly 

 to the territorial waters of Russia only. It was required by the 

 numerous abuses proved in late years, and which fell with all their 

 weight on the population of our sea- shore and of our islands, whose 

 only meansof support is by fishing and hunting. These abuses inflicted 

 also a marked injury on the interests of the Com])any to which the 

 Imx)erial Government has conceded tlie monopoly of lishing and hunt- 

 ing ("exportation"), in islands called the "(Commodore" and the 

 ''Seals. " 



Beyond this new Regulation, of which the essential point is the 

 obligation imposed upon captains of vessels who desire to hsh and 

 to hunt in the Jiussian waters of the racific to provide themselves at 

 Vladivostock with the permission or licence of the Governor-General 

 of Oriental Siberia, the right of fishing, hunting, and of trade by 

 foreigners in our teiritorial waters is regulated by Article 560, and 

 those following, of vol. xii, Part II, of the Code of Laws. 

 Informing you of the preceding, I have, &c. 



72 Bancroft writes, in his "History of Alaska" (pp. 



19, 20) : " The Anadir,whi('h emi)ties into the Pacilic." 



Again: "Thus the Pacific Ocean was first reached by the 



Eussians on the shore of the Okhotsk Sea." And yet again : 



" The ascent of the Lena brought the Eussians to Lake 



Baikal, and showed them another route to the Pacific, 



through China by way of the Amoor." 



seTs^^^n^ate'l"'^ ^*^' ^^ 1^87, it is fouud that the American Eepresentative 



Doc^.''no"'\o6, p. at St. Petersburg informed Mr. Bayard (17th February, 



^®L A^„o„,r 1887) that the notice already quoted prohibits fishing, »5tc.. 



See Appendix, ■' . r, ■ n j. ii mi • i 



vol. ii. Part II, on "the Eussiaii Pacific coasts." This correspondence 

 No. 18. related to a seizure which had been made in Behring Straits. 



GEOGRAPHICAL USE OF " PACIFIC OCEAN " AND 

 " NORTH-WEST COAST." 



In the discussion of the question of jurisdiction between 

 the United States and Great Britain, special reference has 

 been made by the ITnited States to tlie marking of maps, 

 from whi<!h it has been insisted that the waters of Behring 

 Sea had been given a name distinct from that of the Pacific 

 Ocean. 



