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7. That on said voyage the "Favourite" carried twenty hunters and 

 ten canoes. The schooner "Mary Ellen," of Victoria aforesaid, on a 

 similar voyage the same season, witli fifteen liunters and five sealing- 

 boats, not seeing or hearing of the said seizures, and remaining in the 

 sea till or about the close of the sealing season, caught 4,25G seal-skins. 

 The actual catch of the "Favourite" for the said season was only 3,325, 

 though she had one-third more hunters than the said "Mary Ellen," 

 and equally as good, if not better, chances of obtaining as large a catch ; 

 and I verily believe that the sum of the actual catch of the "Favourite," 

 together with the 1,000 herein claimed, making a total of 4,325 for the 

 season of 1880, is a fair and reasonable estimate for the catch of the 

 "Favourite" that year, had she not been interfered with as above 

 set out. 



8. That the market price per seal-skin at Victoria at the close of the 

 season of 1886 was 7 dollars, and the amount claimed as the value of 

 1,000 skins lost t© the owner of the "Favourite," by reason of her so 

 leaving the Behring Sea is 7,000 dollars. 



And I, James Douglas Warren aforesaid, make this solemn declara- 

 tion, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of 

 "The Act resjjecting Extra-Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) J. D. Warren. 



Declared and affirmed before me at the city of Ottawa, in the County 

 of Carleton, in the Province of Ontario, this Oth day of December, A. D. 

 1887, and certified under my official seal. 



(Signed) D. O'Connor, 



Notary Public for Ontario. 



IG DEOLARATION OF JAMES DOUGLAS WARREN. 



(JiTY OF Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. 



I, James Douglas Warren, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of 

 British Columbia, of the Dominion of Canada, master mariner and ship- 

 owner, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 



1. That I have been a resident of the said city of Victoria for the 

 past twenty-nine years, and during that time I have been largely 

 interested in the building, equipment, and management of steam- and 

 sailing vessels. I have also been engaged in the sealing and fishing 

 business at said city for the past fourteen or fifteen years. 



2. The steam-schooners "Grace" and "Dolphin," and the schooner 

 "W. P. Say ward," and the rebuilding and fitting with steam-power of 

 the steam-schooners "Anna Beck" and "Thornton," all of which vessels 

 have been seized in Behring Sea by the United States authorities, 

 were built and done for me, and under my i)ersonal direction, and were 

 each owned and managed by me for some time after their completion, 

 and are now managed by me for their resi)ective owner and owners. 

 The schooners "Carolena," "Favourite," "Alfied Adams," "Ada," and 

 "Onward," all also seized in Behring Sea by the United States authori- 

 ties, were each and all well known to me from personal knowledge. 

 From my interest in the Beliring Sea sealing business, I kept myself 

 well posted on the matter and manner of the condition and equipment 

 of the said vessels, and most of the facts stated in the declarations of 

 claim in the case of each of these vessels came under my personal 

 observation. The said vessels, excepting the "Thornton," "Onward," 

 and "Carolena," which are at Ounalaska, are at Sitka, in the United 

 States Territory of Alaska. 



