72 ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



quoted by the British Commissioners. He does, indeed, 

 state that — 



•'Monograph the females, after giving birth to their young, temporarily repair 

 of ^^ortb Anicri- again to the water. 

 call Piunipeds, " 



p. 386. B^it; not fQY the purpose of feeding, for in the same para- 



graph he says that, after impregnation — 



she lies either sleeping near her yoiing, or spends her time floating or 

 playing in the water near the shore, returning occasionally to suckle 

 her pup. 



In the statement next referred to, only a part of what 

 Captain Bryant wrote is quoted. He begins the sentence, 

 thus partially given, by saying — 



njid., p. 382. ^g y„,j ijave had the result of my first season's observations there 

 [see Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. ii, 1870, pp. 89-108], I need not be so 

 diffuse in my descriptions as wuuld be otherwise necessary, and you 

 will understand, &c. 



And it is from the Eejiort thus referred to that the Com- 

 missioners quote. 

 Pages 58, 59. g^ It will be remembered that certain recent affida- 



cia^e," AtpcntUx*! vits made by Captain Bryant in 1892 are prominently 



vol. ii, p. 3. advanced as evidence by the United States. 

 coiinte^-Ca'Ve! HavJug, iu thc manner above outlined, treated the evi- 

 Appendix.p. 413. f|ence, observations, and general conclusions of the British 

 Commissioners on this subject, the United States Counter- 

 Case concludes the discussion by the following unwarranted 

 statement: 



One nntive of the Commander Islands is, therefore, the sole authority 

 for the statement of the British Commissioners. 



The method of treatment thus adopted on the part of the 

 United States, for the inirjiose of combating a reasoned 

 discussion on natural facts, is resorted to in many other 

 instances in their Counter Ca.se. But it is impossible to 

 treat all these in any detail here. The attention of the 

 Arbitrators is therefore respectfully called to a comparison 

 of ))aras. 303-316 of the British Commissioners' Beport, 

 with their criticism as contained on pp. 57-(iO of the Coun- 

 ter-Case of the United States. 

 Post, p. 125. In conclusion, the United States refer to evidence 



obtained iu 1892 by Mr. C. H. Townsend, which is else- 

 where discussed, and to observations of Mr. Stanley- 

 Brown. It may here be mentioned, however, that Mr. 

 Towusend's observations as to the condition of the rooker- 

 ies iu regard to the number of females ashore at a certain 

 date in 1892, does not show that the observations of the 

 British Commissioners at the same date in 1891 were erro- 

 neous. Neither is Mr. Stanley-Brown's statement, that the 

 females stay on land fourteen to seventeen days after the 

 birth of the young, in conflict with any statement made 

 British Com- by the British Commissioners; but the assumijtion must 

 pJrt,'pTra8.3()G^"ot bc made that when the females begin to seek the 

 308,309,313. ' water this is equivalent to their going to sea in search of 

 food. 



*'4. Aquatic Coition.^' 



Pages, 60, 61. Evidcncc quoted by the British Commissioners from 

 published Reports of the United States, on the authority 



