THIRTY-NINTH DAY, JUNE 15™, 1893. 



Sir EiCHARD Webster. — I promised, Mr. President, to give yon 

 tliose distances the first tbing this morniug. On page 242 of the United 

 States Counter Case, the distances from the Islands to those seals 

 referred to in Mr. Alexander's tables were taken; the first two on the 

 6th of August which are female seals, one nursing and one virgin, which 

 were taken empty, were within the 20 mile radius; the next one on the 

 12th of August was distant about 40 miles from the Island, that was a 

 virgin female with fish bones in it; the next one on the 13th of August, 

 also a virgin female, empty, 180 miles from the Island; the next two, 

 which are on the 21st of August, empty and fish bones, 90 miles from 

 the Island; and the last one is stated in their own statement to be 

 110 miles. 



Mr. President, I was referring last night to the collated testimony 

 which is put forward for the purpose of showing the amount of females 

 in milk killed in Behrin.g Sea. I had finished page 453, and I am not 

 going to read every extract; I will simi)ly remind the Tribunal again 

 of my point and will read any extracts that seem to bear on that or 

 will, of course, deal with any if any are called to my particular attention. 

 Our point is, it is impossible from this table or from the affidavits them- 

 selves to gather how many seals were killed in milk, the place they were 

 killed, or the times when. Many of the afiidavits are defective in two 

 out of three particulars, and, so far as we have examined them, no one 

 contains them all. 



I will read a few specimens and then I will pass to one or two that 

 are more important in our submission. Take page 454 of the collated 

 testimony Thomas Brown : 



We entered the sea along about the first May and caught between 600 and 700 seals 

 from 30 to 50 miles off the seal Islands and 4 out of 5 were females in milk. I saw 

 the milk running on the deck when we skinned them. 



I call attention to the date which so far as it is of any importance 

 will support an argument which I have ah"eady addressed ; that is some- 

 where "about the first of May." Then Charles Campbell: 



Have killed cows with milk about 60 miles off the Pribilof Islands. 



Then John Cantwell : 



80 per cent of the seals shod in Behring Sea from July first to September 15 are 

 females most of which have given birth to their young and are mostly caught while 

 feeding at various distances from land. 



Charles Challall: 



At least 7 out of 8 seals caught in Behring Sea were mothers in milk. 



Then Circus Jim, I sui>pose he is an Indian: 



While in the sea I caught a great many cow seals that were giving milk. Most 

 all seals we caught in the sea were giving milk. 



You will notice neither date nor place nor number given. 

 Now I want to call attention to Claplanhoo because I have to make 

 an observation about him, and I desire to read Claplanhoo's evidence, 



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