120 ARGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



5i8t Cong., 211(1 It should be added that as late as 1890 this gentleman 

 Seas., H.K. 7903. gg^iju visitcd and investigated the breeding resorts on the 

 Pribyloff Islands as the trusted Agent of the United 

 States, and again under the mandate of a special Act of 

 Congress, but that the Report known lo have been made 

 on the results of that examination has not been published 

 or produced to Great Britain, although the British Agent 

 made a special demand for its jn'oduction, and is not any- 

 where found among the documents cited in or appended to 

 the Case of the United States. 



The following is a list of some of Mr. Elliott's Reports 

 and writnigs on the subject of seal life: 



1. Report on the Pribyloff group or Seal Islands of Alaska. — (Wash- 

 ington Government Printing Office, 1873.) 



2. Report to Secretary of the Treasury concerning the waste of seal 

 oil, and the " natives " of the Pribyloff Islands, aud the brewing of 

 quass. — (H, R., 44th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 83, pp. 103 

 and 104.; 



3. Report Tipon the condition of affairs in the Territory of Alaska. — 

 (Washington Government Printing Office, 1875.) 



4. "Ten years' acquaintance with Alaska, 1867-77." — (New York. 

 Harpers Brothers, 1877; vol. iv. No. 330.) 



5. "Tlie Seal Islands of Alaska." — (Washington Government Print- 

 nig Office, 1881.) 



6. Report on the Seal Islands of Alaska. — (Washington Government 

 Printing Office, 1884.) 



7. "Our Arctic Province." 



It is to be noted that five out of the above seven publi- 

 cations were printed and circulated by the United States 

 Government, and that besides thi' above works Mr. Elliott 

 has contributed to newspapers and magazines many arti- 

 cles and papers too numerous to give a list of. 



Mr. Elliott has, without doubt, always been considered 

 the leading authority on the fur-seal question. 



While it is conceivable that some of the Reports of 

 Agents api^ointed by the United States to control the 

 Pribyloff Islands may, for many reasons, have been con- 

 sidered by the advisers of the United States as undesira- 

 ble subjects for publication, it is difficult to understand on 

 what grounds all of the Reports have been ignored, and 

 particularly why th<^ principal official investigator of the 

 natural history of the fur-seal should not be even referred 

 to, aud his Report, made in pursuance to a special Act of 

 Congress, should be suppressed. 

 Mr.A.w.Lav- Auothcr uotcworthy circumstance connected with the 

 ®^ ®^" evidence put forward by the United States is as to the decla- 



rations which imrport to have been made before one ''A.W. 

 Lavender." These are very numerous, some being 

 149 taken at Sitka, others at Washington, others at 

 Kadiak, Nicholas Bay, Dixon Entrance, Victoria, 

 San Francisco, and Lynn Canal. 

 UDited states Ou reference to the declarations it will be found that this 

 vor'ii^pp!°24^ gentleman i:»urports to have attested de(;laratious at these 

 247. ' ■ ' various places all on the same day. Thus, on the 14th 

 Ibid! ^pp.^ 406, April he attests the declaration of three Indians in or near 

 ^'"■^- Lynn Canal or Chatham Sound, and also the evidence of J. 



Johnson at Victoria, British Columbia; while on the very 

 same date he purports to attest the declaration of Martin 

 Benson aud James Griffin at San Francisco. 



