SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE. 233 



(A) THE HERDS ARE DIFFERENT. 



Mr. George Bantle (p. 508, Appendix to Case of the United States, 

 Vol. II), one of the witnesses upon this point, is a packer and sorter of 

 raw fur-kins. He had been in that business, at the time of testifying, 

 twenty years, and had handled many thousands of skins. He says: 



I can tell by examining a skin whether it was caught in season or out 

 of season, and whether it was caught on the Russian side or on the Ameri- 

 can side. A Russian skin is generally coarser, and the under wool is 

 generally darker and coarser, than the skins of seals caught on the 

 American side. A Russian skin does not make as tine a skin as the 

 skins of the seals caught on the American side, and are not worth as 

 much in the market, i can easily distinguish one from the other. 



Mr. H. S. Bevington, M. A. (ibid., p. 551), a subject of Her Britannic 

 Majesty, forty years of age, the head of the firm of Bevington & Mor- 

 ris, 28 Common street, in the city of London, was sworn and testified 

 upon the subject. His testimony is interesting, and may be found at 

 page 550, Volume n, of the Appendix to United States Case. Upon the 

 subject of the variations observable, he says: 



That the differences between the three several sorts of skins last 

 mentioned are so marked as to enable any person skilled in the busi- 

 ness or accustomed to handle the same to readily distinguish theskins 

 of one catch from those of another, especially in bulk, and it is the fact 

 that when they reach the market the skins of eacli class come separ- 

 ately and are not found mingled with those belonging to the other 

 classes. The skins of the Copper Island catch are distinguished from 

 the skins of the Alaska and Northwest catch, which two last-mentioned 

 classes of skins ap>pear to be nearly allied to each other and are of the 

 same general character, by reason of the fact that in their raw state the 

 Copper skins are lighter in color than either of the other two, and in 

 the dyed state there is a marked difference in the appearanee of the 

 fur of the Copper and the other two classes of skins. This difference 

 is difficult to describe to a person unaccustomed to handle skins, but it 

 is nevertheless clear and distinct to an expert, and may be generally de- 

 scribed by saying that the Copper skins are of a. close, short and shiny 

 fur, particularly down by the flank, to a greater extent that the Alaska 

 and Northwest skins. 



Joseph Stanley-Brown (ibid., p. 12) a geologist of distinction, resid- 

 ing at Mentor, Ohio, was commissioned by the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury to visit the Pribilof Islands for the purpose of studying the seal 

 life found thereon; he spent one hundred and thirty days in actual inves- 

 tigation and study of the subject. While he does not claim to have 

 become an expert in that time as to the various and distinguishing 



