ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 97 



gTonnfl, wliich mvst be passed over by all seals going to any 

 other part of it — 



lie down to rest, and sleep and are overlooked by their mothers return- 

 ing liom the sea, 



no better explanation could be given of the cause of the 

 mortality among young seals on those parts of the rookeries, 

 on some of Avhich it is not as in this case necessary for the 

 mothers to cross the ground upon which the dead pops 



occnrred. 

 118 The statements as to a great decrease in the num- p^^^ gj 



ber of dead pups in 1892, as compared with 1891, Bruish coun- 

 made by United States, are in direct contlict with the *''ibi(U,''' Apl?en- 

 observations of Mr. Macoun, and are contradicted al.so by ^is, vol. i,p. i46. 

 the photographs taken in 1892 when comi)ared with those 

 of 1891. 



Mr. Stanley-Brown is quoted on this page of the United United states 

 States Counter-Case as saying: p.m'""'^'''"' 



Dead pnps were as conspicuons by their infrequency in 1892 as by 

 their numerousness in 1891. 



This gentleman, hoAvever, left the Pribyloff Islands on 

 the 14th August, 1892. 



Dead pups were first observed to be numerous and i^ho- British Coim- 

 tographed on Tolstoi by Mr. Macoun 19th August; though |fi^;*^{!^^;i^P/;^^: 

 photographs taken 8th Angust by Mr. Maynard show that 

 large numbers of dead pups were lying on that rookery at 

 that date. 



Mr. Stanley-Brown admits that in 1892 the number of United states 

 dead pups on this rookery was "beyond the normal." He ^^"y""*®''"^'*'"'' ^• 

 devotes more than a page of his afhdavit appended to the 

 United States Counter-Case to endeavouring to explain it, 

 in the manner already noticed. 



• Colonel Murray, next quoted in the United States Coun- 

 ter-Case, says: 



I went over the rookeries carefully looking for dead pujis. The Ibid., p. 378. 

 largest number on any rookery occurred on Tolstoi, but here, as on the 

 rookeries generally, but few of them were to bo seen as compared with 

 last year. 1'his was the hrst time in my four seasons' residence on the 

 islands that the number of dead pups was not greater than could be 

 accounted for by natural causes. 



Colonel Murray gives no date. That his visit to Tolstoi 

 was before the date of the departure of Mr. Stanley- Brown 

 from the islands is evident, as Mr. Stanley-Brown, as above 

 noted, describes the mortality as beyond the normal. 



Mr. A. W. Lavender's statement as to the practical page92. 

 absence of dead pups on St. George in 1892 coincides with ^ .^. , „ 



Ti,,, ", T , • mi • i British Conn- 



Air. Macoun s observations. The same circumstance was cer-Case, Appeu- 



particularly observed in the case of the similar mortality ''''^' ^°^'' i'-^^"- 

 in 1891. And such mortality is referred to in none of the te^cale^p^is.'^ 

 aflBdavits in Appendix to United States Case which refer J^^■^^^J^^ q^^. 

 to St, George Island in that year. This circumstance, in missioners' Re- 

 ffict, strongly supports the belief that the mortality iu p«;t, para. 346 et 

 neither year could have been due to the killing of mothers 

 at sea. 



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