FORTIETH DAY, JUNE i6^", 1893. 



Sir RicnAED Webster. — Mr. President, I will endeavour, to the 

 utmost of my power, to compress the observations that I desire to make 

 in conclusion, though I am quite sure that the Tribunal would wish tliat 

 I should not spare anything that I really feel to be material. I will, as 

 far as possible, avoid anything except that which seems to me of first 

 class importance. 



[ was dealing with the possible control of pelagic hunting outside 

 Behring Sea, always remembering, and I ask the Tribunal to remember, 

 that 1 tiike this under protest and contending, as I have to argued, that 

 the Pacific Ocean south of the Aleutian Chain is not to be the subject 

 of Eegulations by this Tribunal. My proposition was that by the end 

 of May the female seals are practically to the Avest of Kadiak Island 

 and going into Behring Sea. That was the statement that I made. 

 There is a mass of testimony about it; I have endeavoured, as fiir as I 

 can, only to pick out some of the most material passages for the pur- 

 pose of citation. I think they will be found best in the United States 

 Appendix, volume 2. I by no means suggest they are all exactly uni- 

 form, or that my statement is exhaustive; but these are, at any rate, 

 material on the point I am mentioning. Page 217, Anderson: 



While engaged in Imnting during the past 18 years, I liave killed more or less fur- 

 seals. I usually first fixll in with fur-seals off Cooks' Inlet, 



That is just to the east of Kadiak Islands. 



about the Ist of June. 



Then, page 215, Avery: 



I start the season off Yakutat. The first seals are seen about April the Ist. 



Then Foster, page 220 : 



The seals appear off Cooks Inlet about the 1st of May. They appear off Unga, 

 about the 1st of June. 



That is close by Unimak. 

 Then, page 222, Rohde: 



I have resided in Alaska 6 years, and in all that time followed the calling of a 

 hunter. Beginning at Cooks Inlet in the Spring, we find seals off the Inlet in May, 

 travelling westward along the coast towards the JJehriug Sea. 



Then Tolman, page 222: 



The seals are taken off Kadiak Island about the Ist of June. 



Then Andersen, page 223: 



I have been along the coast from Prince Williams'. Sound to Senuak Islands. Seals 

 are first seen at Piiuce Williams Souud about the 1st of May. 



Then Muller, page 222 : 



I start the season off" Cooks Inlet. The first seals are seen about May 



He does not say which part of May, and I should not have read that. 

 Then at ])age 224 there are a large number of Indians (some 7 or 8) 

 who make an affidavit and they say. 



Fur-seals always appear in the vicinity of Cooks' Inlet early in the month of May, 

 and 14 more Indians at page 225 say the same thing. 



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