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CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



No. 14. 



" Tritnnph." — Ordered out of Behring Sea hi/ United States steam-ship " Eiehard liush,' 



July il, 18S9. 



For- 



Amount of 



clnini as 



put for ward 



by owner. 



Evidence in support of claim. 



Balance of estimated catch of 2,500, at 8 dollars 



a skin. 

 Legal and other expenses 



$19, 424. 00 

 250. 00 



Affidavits of Edgar Crow Baker and 

 Daniel McLean. 

 Do. 



Claim by owner, -with interest at 7 per cent, to 

 date of pajinent. 



DECLARATION OF EDGAR CROW BAKER. 



City of Victoria, Province of British Columhia, Dominion of Canada. 

 I, Edgar Crow Baker, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of Brit- 

 isli Colnmbia, Dominion of Canada, retired Navigating Lieutenant, 

 Koyal Navy, but at pre.sent (among various other businesses) following 

 the occupation or calling of a Real Estate and Financial Broker in the 

 city aforesaid, and the duly authorized managing owner of tlie British 

 sealing- schooner ''Triumph," do solemnly and sincerely declare as 

 follows : 



1. That said schooner was built in April 1887 in Shelburne, Nova 

 Scotia, purchased by myself and others, as ])er original register, and 

 brought to the port of Victoria by one Daniel McLean, master and 

 part owner, for the express purpose of engaging in the business of seal- ■ 

 hunting in the North I'acitic Oceau and Behring Sea, and elsewhere. 



2. That said vessel was duly registered at the port of Victoria, 

 British Columbia, by the usual method of transfer of registry, on the 

 lind December, 1887, with the port number 11, her registered tonnage 

 being 87.51, and her ofhcial number, 90,G81. 



3. That said vessel arrived at the port of Victoria on or about the 

 25th Aijril, 1888, and after undergoing usual refit and outfit for her 

 sealing voyage, cleared from the port of Victoria on or about the 5th 

 May, 1888, for Behring Sea, and prosecuted that branch of the deep- 

 sea fisheries known as seal-hunting, in said arm of the North Pacific 

 Ocean, with a crew composed principally of Indian hunters, and returned 

 to Victoria on or about the 12th September of said year with a catch 

 of 2,1111 seal-skins, and the master reported no interference or molesta- 

 tion on the part of the United States revenue cruisers. 



46 4. That said catch was sold in the market at Victoria for the 



price or sum of 14,219 dol. 75 c, and after reimbursing all expense 

 of outfit for the hunting period, payment of hunters and crew, yielded 

 a very handsome profit to the owners of said vessel for their season's 

 venture. 



5. That the price i)aid for skins during the season immediately above 

 referred to was 6 dollars only in Vic^toria, though 75 dol. 25 c. and (i5 

 dol. 50 c. was obtained at the usual fall sales in London, Great Britain. 



6. Tliat the registered owners of said vessel at that time were : Edgar 

 Crow Baker, 21 shares: Walter E, Blackctt, 21 shares; Daniel McLean, 

 22 shares, participating equally in the profits, and the vessel com- 

 manded by same master. 



7. That in January of the present year (1889), in order to make the 

 vessel as staunch and seaworthy as it was possible to make a vessel, 



