122 AKGUMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



all. Oue example will suffice to show Mr. Belilow's method. 

 In the case of the " Emma Louise," Mr. Behlow reports 

 (United States Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 402) that he 

 examined 1,342 skins from this ship, and he purports to 

 give an accurate result of his investigation, showing 4 

 bulls, 123 males, 98 pups, and 1,112 cows. It will be seen 

 from the aflidavits of Charles B. J. Barber, Charles D. 

 Ladd, and J. A. Belodo (British Counter-Case, vol. ii, p. 

 173 et seq.) that the examination of this large number of 

 skins, whicli in ordinary course would take a great many 

 hours to examine, did not occupy Mr. Behlow more than 

 five minutes, and that he stated to them that it did not 

 pay to inspect them, as he was only paid 5 dollars a-day 

 for doing it. 



The skins were snbsequently forwarded to London — to 

 Messrs. Lampson — and their Beport on them wall be found 

 on p. 112, vol. ii, British Counter-Case, Api)endix. This 

 Eeport shows that no less than 563 skins were too light 

 to be those of bearing females, and 306 of them are too 

 heavy to be females at all, leaving a balance only of 469 

 which could have been bearing females. 

 Tjrited states Thevarious statistical Tables used throughout the United 

 States Case and Counter-X3ase contain many regrettable 

 errors, which will at the j)roper time be pointed out. It is 

 sufficient here, as an example of these errors, to 

 cfnnter-cnsi!!^^ draw attention to the now admitted serious inaccu- 

 Ai.peiuUx,voi.ii', racics in Messrs. Lampson's Tables (United States 



^'^^'^' Case, Appendix, vol. ii, p. 582), and to the extraordinary 



Tables appearing at p. 369 of the United States Counter- 

 Case Appendix. This latter Table has been examined by 

 an actuary, with the result that he reports that every sin- 

 gle calculation of averages shown thereon is erroneous. 

 This Table is jiarticularly relied upon in the United States 

 Counter-Case (p. 77), on the question of the average weight 

 of seal-skins in various years. 

 confradictory In a great number of cases deponents giving evidence 

 declarations, f^p ^j^g United Statcs have been seen with reference to 

 their affidavits, and almost invariably it has been found 

 that the statements made in the original deposition were 

 capable of considerable modification and explanation not 

 contained in the original affidavit. Fresh affidavits have 

 been obtained from some of these deponents. In many 

 cases the witnesses directly contradict their former state- 

 ments, and others even deny that they made them. The 

 following few examples will show with what caution the 

 evidence put forward by the United States should be 

 received: 



