ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 85 



as official figures. A printer's error has placed two 

 asterisks (*) in the text of this page of the Commissioners' 

 Eeport, and lias omitted the reference at the foot of the 

 page to which one of them should apply. A brief examina- 

 tion would have shewn that the figures referred to were 

 those in Mr. Goff's ofiHcial Eeport on the Pribyloff Islands ^sistcong.^^^d 

 for 1890. The tigures given by the Commissioners are 1^*00! 'Ko.''i9.'' '^' 

 indent ical with those of the Report in question. On 

 examining the figures it will, however, be found that an 

 error in addition has been made in the Congressional docu- 

 ment referred to; the total number of skins derived from 

 North east Point in ISUO should read 6,592, instead of 

 5,007. This difference has, however, no bearing on the 

 subject under discussion. 



In respect to the question of the driving of seals in 1879 Pages 78, 79. 

 from the vicinity of rookeries previously reserved and 

 exempted from driving. — Statements made on this subject 

 (and with special relerence to Zapadnie and Polavina 

 rookeries) by the Commissioners are denied by the United 

 States. In making these statements (though confirmation 

 was obtained from other sources), reliance was evidently 

 placed upon the official Eeports of Mr. H. W. Elliott. In 

 his Eeport bearing date 1880, Mr, Elliott, speaking of 

 Zapadnie rookery and the hauhng grounds in its vicinity, 

 says : 



The "holhischickie," that sport here on the parade plateau, and, Op. Cit., p. 55. 

 indeed, over all of the western extent of the English Bay hanling- 

 gronnds, have necer hecn visited by the natives for the purpose 0/ stlectiiig 

 kiiruKj drives since 1872, inasmuch as more teals than were wanted have 

 alnays been procured from Zoltoi, Lukannon, and Lotver Tolstoi points, 

 which are all very close to the village. 



102 Eespecting Polavina he says in the same Eeport: 



For the reason cited in a similar example at Zapadnie, no "hoUus- Op. Cit., p. 56. 

 chickie" have been driven from this point since 1S72, though it is one of 

 the ea.siest worked. It was in the Russian times a pet sealiug-grouud 

 with them. 



Mr. Elliott investigated the circumstances in 1872-74, ^^^^^i^^l^',^^. Case, 

 ,and revisited the islands in 1876. When he again revisited iij, J'mt lii. 

 'the islands in 1890, he states that he found that driving jr'y^/(\'^y^|^!;pp^ 

 had been extended to Zapadnie and Polavina rookeries in 57-59. 

 1879, as quoted by the British Commissioners. 



During all his stays u])ou and visits to the Pribyloff 

 Islands, Mr. Elliott was specially engaged in an ofticial 

 capacity in investigating the conditions of seal life there 

 for the United States. The Commissioners were thus fully 

 justified in assuming that the statements made by him in 

 official Eeports were correct. 



But the United States have, in the Appendix to their Apperdix. vol. 

 (3ase, published, for the first time, certain Tables by Mr. |i!^]y^2/^^"^^'• 

 Max Ileiibronner, Secretary of the Alaska Commercial 

 Comi)aiiy, rehiting to the killing in each year from the 

 various rookeries. These are now referred to as contradict- 

 ing the statements quoted by the Commissioners. It may 

 be that the Secretaiy of the Com]>any has possessed fuller 

 information in this case than the Government officials, but 



