ORAL ARGUMENT OF FREDERICK R. COUDERT, ESQ. 385 



ing tlius profitable owing to tlie fact that competition on the part of the 

 United States had been practically abrogated, we find the vessels 

 engaged in sealing correspondingly increasing in number. In 1890 the 

 number of vessels was 61, In ISUl it was 115 and in 1892, 122. What 

 the effect of a protracted modus vivendi would be it requires no proi)het 

 to tell. 



The following is the Table handed in: 



Pribilof and pelagic catches for 1S90, 1S91, and 1S93. 



1890 



Seals killed on Pribilof Islands 21,238 



( U. S. Case, vol. II, p. 112). 

 Pelagic Catch 51, 655 



{Br. Com. Report, p. 207). 



Total Catch 72,893 



1891 



Seals killed on Pribilof Islands 12, 071 



(C7. .S'. Case, vol. I, p. 333). 

 Pelagic Catch 68,000 



{Br. Com. Report, p. 207). 



Total Catch 80,071 



1892 



Seals killed on Pribilof Islands 7, 500 



(Modus vivendi). 

 Pelagic Catch 73,394 



(P. S. Counter Case, p. 458). 



Total Catch 80,894 



AVERAGE PRICE OF SKINS AT VICTORIA. 



1889. Average price per skin $6. 83 



1890. Avernge price per skin 10. 70 



1891. Average i)rice per skin 14. 99 



{U. S. Case, vol. II, p. 534), 



WAGES PAID HUNTERS AT VICTORIA. 



1889. Price paid per skin $2 to $3. 



1890-91. Price paid per skin ^ 3.50 



1892. Price paid per skin 4.00 



{British Counter Case, vol. II, p. 222). 



VESSELS ENGAGED IN SEALING. 



1890. Nnmber of vessels 61 



1891. Number of vessels 115 



1892. Number of vessels 122 



( U. S. Case, vol. I, p. 590). 



I want to supplement this by a paper which is not printed but which 

 I will hand to my learned friends ou the other side, so that they may 

 comment upon it or criticize it as they please. It is the pelagic catch 

 of the Victoria fleet in 1891. This is a matter of computation, and I 

 shall not dwell upon it; if my learned friends find it incorrect they can 

 state their corrections. Table A of the British Commissioners' Eeport, 

 page 205, contains a list of Canadian sealing vessels, with the date of 

 their warning in Behring Sea, and of their return arrival at Victoria. 

 Of these vessels, 44 are shown to have taken seals in Behring Sea, and 

 of the latter, 29 were found and warned on the American side of the 

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