106 ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



obtained by tliem enabled them to do, tlie principal resorts 



of the fur-seal at various seasons, and the main routes cov- 



Bntish Coun- ei ed during its migration. Further evidence since obtained 



^er<jase, Appen- i^ginjg fully to confiim these main facts as represented in 



43-i;i9° ' "' ^^' the migTation-maj) of the British Commissioners. 



United states It will further be remembered, that in the Case of the 

 Case, p. 129. United States, evidence is brought forward to show that 

 the Californian fur-seal is an animal wholly different from 

 the northern fur-seal proper; while the British Commis- 

 sioners, though not aware of the conclusions at which Pro- 

 dix! ^^ol i, p?406°' f'L'Ssor Allen was about to arrive on this subject, have 

 British Com - themselvcs independently recordcd their belief that thefur- 

 "ort'^paras ^'oo ^^'^^^^ uotcd as breeding on the Californian coast could not 

 191. ' ' ' well have taken part in the main migration. 

 Page 104. The statement made on this page of the United States 



Counter-Case, and based on evidence quoted by the British 

 Commissioners, that Captains Kelly and Petit have followed 

 the seals "along" the British Columbian coast, has 

 Page 104. ijQ nothing to do with the subject under discussion, for it 

 is fully understood and explained in the British Com- 

 missioners' Report that a northward movement sets in 

 among the seals in the spring. 

 The further statement that — 



the distribution of tlie Alaskan seal-herd is mnch more scattered dur- 

 ing the wiuter months than is implied by the Keport, and tlie range 

 of position of the herd is much further south and west than appears 

 on the Commissioners' chart of migration, 



shows merely a misconception of the nature of these state- 

 ments and of that chart. No chart, map, or diagram si 'ow- 

 ing the result of observations of natural phenomena, such 

 as those df migration, winds, rainfall, &c., in a general 

 way, is so framed as to include all exceptional cases. 



It is of interest to note, by the statements made on this 

 page of the Counter-Case, that the United States — twenty- 

 live years after having come into possession of Alaska — 

 have in 1892 for the liist time taken some measures to 

 ascertain the migration routes of the fur-seal; and though 

 the investigations thus carried out by Captain Hooper, in 

 a single vessel, do not afford evidence of a character com- 

 parable with that obtained by the British Comuussioners 

 from the numerous pelagic sealers and the native peoples 

 inhabiting the coasts, they, nevertheless, i)ossess some 

 l)oints of interest. 



These investigations are referred to in afoot-note to tliis 

 page of the United States Counter Case, and it will be 

 found on consulting Captain Hooper's Keport, in the Ap- 

 pendix, th it wherever he speaks of actual observations, 

 his statements are in accord with those of the British Com- 

 missioners. He thus writes: 



United States But a small part of the entire herd goes to the coasts of California 



Coiinter-Ca.so, and Oregon. Mann seals reach the coast further north, some of them 



^2^370 ^^ coming out throngli the passes, but going no doubt direct to the coast 



' ' of Washington, and eren further north. In 18S(5, during a passage in the 



United States revenue-steamer "Rush," Irom Puget Sound to i na- 



laska, where we arrived on the 19th Jaunai-y, I saw fur-seals nearhj 



enery day, the ve.ssel having passed through the herd tlieii on its 



migration from the passes to the coast, and extending entirely across 



the J'acific Ocean, 



