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mate in returninjij to Victoria from Sitka; and also of the number and 

 value of the seal skins taken from the "Dolphin" Avheu seized. 



13. The value placed on the said steam-schooner "Dolphin" in 

 Exhibit (A), namely, 115,000 dollars, is based upon her original cost, the 

 condition which she was in when seized, and the value of vessels of her 

 class and equipment at Victoria as albresaid. The first cost of the 

 "Dolphin " was over 10,000 dollars. At the time of her seizure she was 

 in tirst-class order and condition, having' been specially repaired and 

 refitted for the voyage slie then was on. Her insurance value for 1887 

 was 12,500 dollars, and she was insured on and during said voyage for 

 2,000L The said value, namely, 12,000 dollars, is a fair and reasonable 

 value for the "Dolphin" when seized. 



14. The prices charged for the articles, and g-roups of articles, in 

 Exhibit (A), comprising the <mtflt of the "Dolpliin," are the actual 

 cost prices of the said articles, and groups of articles, at the time of 

 their purchase at Victoria for the purjioses of said voyage. The price 

 per skin (jhiuged in Exhibit (A) for the seal-skins on board the 

 " Dolphin " when seized, namely, 5 dol. 50 c. per skin, was the market 

 price at Victoria aforesaid at the close of the sealing season of 1887, 

 and at which time the said seal-skins would have, had not such seizure 

 taken ])lace, been put upon the Victoria market. 



15. That hereto annexed, marked " (O)," is a statement of the legal 

 expenses incurred at Sitka and elsewhere, and also of personal expenses 

 arising out of the seizure of the "Dolphin," the arrest of the master and 

 mate, and the claims relating thereto. 



10. The Exhibit (D), hereto annexed, is a statement of the estimated 

 loss and damage to the owner of the "Dolphin" by reason of her seizure 

 and detention during A. D. 1887. The loss for 1887 is based upon a 

 catch of 4,500 seals at the current price per seal-skin at Victoria at the 

 close of the season of 1887. The "Dolphin," on her voyage, carried 

 thirteen canoes and two sealing-boats, and a crew of thirty-one sailors 

 and hunters. The estimated catch of 4,500 seals by the "Dolphin" 

 for said season is (calculated on an average catch of 300 seals per boat 

 and canoe for a full season; and I verily believe that said average 

 catch -per boat and per canoe for said season is a fair and reasonable 

 estimate for a full season's work. During the time the "Dolphin" 

 was in Behring Sea, before capture, the weather was very unfavorable 

 for seal-hunting, being both foggy and windy, and the catch for that 

 period is no standard by which to judge of the ordinary and average 

 catch of the season. There are frequently, all through the season, 

 days at a time when no seals at all are taken, and, on the contrary, I 

 have known a single boat to take from thirty to lifty seals per day in 

 fine weather. 



17. After the close of the sealing season, and during the succeeding 

 months of October, November, December, and January, had the 

 "Dolphin" been in her owner's possession, she would have been engaged 

 iTi the coasting trade between the various ports and freighting places 

 on the coasts of British Colundjia. During said montlis the fair and 

 reasonable earnings of the "Dolphin," after deducting from the gross 

 amount thereof the cost of wages and running expenses, would be at 

 least 500 dollars per month. 



18. The estimated loss for the season of 1888 is based upon the said 

 average catch of 4,500 seal-skins at the rate of 5i dollars per skin, 

 after deducting theic^from the cost of outfit, wages, and other necessary 

 expenses of a hunting and tishing voyages based on tlie "Doli)hin's" 

 voyage of A. d. 1887. In order to lit up the "Dolphin" for such voyage 



