68 ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



been employed in connection with the Case or Counter- 

 Case of the United States; that tliis Eeport has not been 

 published by that Goveruinent; and that the United States 

 have even refused to furnish this Keport to the Agent for 

 Great Britain, who had formally applied for it. 



It is thus apparent, not only that the United States (as 

 elsewliere shown) have gradually changed their position 

 in reg;ird to rights in Behring Sea, but that they have 

 now almost entirely ignored the previous Reports and 

 assertions of their own official Kepresentatives in respect 

 to the facts bearing upon seal life and its conditions. 



Without attaching undue importance to the attack 

 made in the Counter-Case of the United States upon the 

 integrity of the British Commissioners, it :»3 proposed to 

 show, in this Appendix, that, without important exception, 

 the conclusions arrived at by the British Commissioners, 

 during their investigations in 1891, stand unaffected by 

 the arguments directed against them in the Counter-Case 

 of the United States; that these arguments, both in fact 

 and form, are unfounded and erroneous; and that, gener- 

 ally, the Conclusions of the Commissioners have been sub- 

 stantiated by further inquiries and investigations conducted 

 in 1802. 



The subjoined notes take the form of brief critical state- 

 ments directed to the various assertions made in the part of 

 the Counter-Case of the the United States to which it 

 relates, and follow the arrangement and order in which 

 these assertions are presented in it. 



79 [The marginal refereiio°a to pages, uuless otberwise specially designated, are 

 throughout to the pages of the United States Counter-Case.] 



"First." 



"Matters in relation to which the Eeport and 

 THE Case of the United States materially con- 

 flict, AND concerning WHICH PROPOSITIONS OR 



Facts are alleged in the Report which have 

 not been considered in the Case of the United 

 States." 



"Habits of the Fur seals." 



"1. Distribution of Seals in Behring Sea and the suggested 

 Intermingling of the Pribylo/f and Commander Seal 

 Herds.^' 



Pages 48, 49. This chapter commences by quoting and alluding to cer- 

 tain passages from the British Commissioners' Report, 

 which convey only one side of the discussion of facts of 

 which they form a part. The general conclusion reached 

 by the British Commissioners as the result of the whole 

 discussion are not quoted. 



Pages 49, 50. The Maps relating to the distribution of seals (particu- 

 larly Nos. 3 and 4), presented by the British Commissioners, 

 are then noticed by the United States, and it is contended 



