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ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



it is significant that the official annual Reports of the Gov- 

 ernment are not here referred to. In these Tables Pohivina 

 is designated " Half-way Point," and Zapadnie appears to 

 be included under the general designation of " South-west 

 Bay." As the numbers are not in all cases given sepa- 

 rately for these two places, it is absolutely impossible to 

 make a statement from the Tables of the actual number of 

 seals taken in each in every year, but the number of 

 recorded "drives" may be taken as an index of the increas- 

 voi.ii,pp.u7-i27 -jig extent of driving from these places in later ye;irs. The 

 number of drives as now stated by the United States is as 

 follows : 



Pages 78, 79. 



United States 



Cis.-, Api .-nilix, 



The substantial accuracy of the remarks made by the 

 British Commissioners as to the increased area of driving 

 in later years, irrespective of Mr. Elliott's very definite 

 statements on the subject, is further shown by the evidence 

 of Mr. H. H. Mclntyre, ap[)ended to the United. States 

 Case, though this evidence is intended for another purpose, 

 i. e., to explain away the alleged deficiency in number of 

 killable seals which occurred in 1879. Mr. Mclntyre says: 



TTniterl States lu order that the selection should be made from as large a unniber 

 C.ise, A| iiendix, as possible, and to satisfy the reiiiiirements of the Treasury Agents in 

 charge, who demanded that all tUe rookeries be worked in regular' 

 rotation, we commenced in 1S7^ or 18S0 to "drive" with greater fre- 

 quency from the more distant and less accessible groinids With 



this exception there was no change iu the manner of conducting the 

 business from 1870 to 1889. 



Professor Allen also says : 



During the last two or three years, however, and in consequence of 

 the decline from the former status of the herd, it has been necessary 

 to lower the age of seals selected for killing, and also to redrive 

 portions of the herd. 



Page 79. rpj^^ Couuter-Case of the United States next states that 



'••the question of over-driving and redriving has already 

 been fully treated of in the Case of the United States." 

 It is here passed over practically without remark, except 



that, ^'- if any occurred,^^ it was directly due to pelagic 

 10-4 sealing. This admission confirms the statement of 



the British Commissioners, to the effect that the 

 "quota" to be taken on the Pribyloff Islands had become 



vol. ii, p. 50. 



United Stntes 

 Case, AiipoiMlix, 

 vol. i, pp. 407, 

 408. 



