ORAL ARGUMENT OF SIR CHARLES RUSSELL, Q. C. M. P. 169 



Then it proceeds : 



In the same year, inland explorations by Zagoskiii, which continued till 1844, 

 began. Sir George Sinijison, Governor of the Hudson's ]>ay Coiii]iaiiy, reached the 

 Stikine post just in time to prevent an Indian uprising. He also visited the Russian 

 establishment at Sitka, and completed an arrangement between the Companies to 

 interdict trade in spirits on the coast. 



Lord Hannen. — You were about, Sir Charles, to tell us where that 

 statement is, I am referriDg to the bottom of page 83. 



Sir Charles Eussell. — It is in Bancroft's History of Alaska, 

 page 583. 

 922 Lord Hannen. — I mean the sentence with reference to the 



Minister for Foreign Affairs. 



Sir Charles Eussell. — That will be found in the citations lower 

 down. 



Lord Hannen. — That is what 1 want to get. 



Sir Charles Eussell. — It is in Bancroft, who Is an American 

 author, as probably you are aware. Then it goes on to say : 



About this time the Russian American Company became alarmed at the danger to 

 their fur trade. Every eiibrt was, therefore, put forward by the Company and the 

 Governors to induce the Foreign Office of the Russian Government to drive oflt" these 

 whalers from the coasts, and by excluding them for a great distance from shore 

 prevent trespasses on shore and the traffic in furs. 



At this time pelagic sealing, although it is admitted to have been 

 carried on from time immemorial — I mean from the coasts, by the 

 natives — probably, had not assumed very large proportions; and appar- 

 ently the American subjects and the British subjects, and others, were 

 doing what, at another period, the Americans had done in the Falkland 

 Islands, namely, making descents on the islands themselves, and taking 

 seals in that way, which they had no right from any point of view to 

 do; and accordingly the suggestion is here made, that in order to pre- 

 vent raids the Eussiau Government should authorize the driving of 

 these whalers off the coasts. 



Then it proceeds to say : 



In 1843 explorations were carried out by the Russian on the Sustchina and Copper 

 Rivers. 



The whalers from 1843 to 1850 landed on the Aleutian and Kurile Islands commit- 

 ting depredations. United States captains openly carried on a traffic in furs with 

 the natives. Tikhmenieff writes, 



From 1843 to 1850 there were constant complaints by the Company of the increasing 

 boldness of the whalers. 



This is an extract from a historical review of the formation of the Eus- 

 sian American Company and their proceedings, written by Tikhmenief, 

 a Eussian chronicler. It is referred to on page 40 of volume 1 of the 

 Appendix to the British Case. 



I am also reminded in this connection that the United States Counter 

 Case, on page 24, refers to this enumeration of historical facts by us, 

 and says: 



Later, however, especially in the years following 1840, Behring Sea was actually 

 visited, as pointed out at pages 83 to 90 of the British Case, by numerous vessels, 

 mostly whalers. 



Of course, the point of this is to see what, if anything, Eussia did. 

 That is the point which I am now coming to. I now read from page 84 

 of the British Case. 



In 1846 the Governor General of Eastern Siberia asked that foreign whalers should 

 not be allowed to come within 40 Italian miles of the Russian shores. 



