GG PERIOD FROM 1825 TO 18G7. 



Waters fre-gg^ qj. jj^ Siberian waters, from wliicli the pres- 



queiitecl b y i ii r - ' • ^ 



armed^cruisers ^'^ ©i^ce of foreign sliips may be reported by the 

 smaller vessels in the course of the season. . . . 

 "In transmitting to your excellency the above 

 outlined plan for the employment of the colonial 

 fleet, the board of administration respectfully 

 requests that, in case the interests of the Company 

 require a deviation from our plans, your excel- 

 lency will never lose sight of the fact that the 

 interests of the Company are centered at the 

 present time in the district surrounding the seal 

 islands of the Pribilof and Commander groups, 

 and that consequently the colonial waters must 

 be visited by the Company's cruisers constantly 

 and in every part, in order to watch and warn 

 the foreign whalers. For this purpose detailed 

 instructions have been formulated for our cruisers, 

 as well as for the commanders of the whale sliips 

 of the Company, which are obliged to serve in 

 the capacity of cruisers when engaged in whaling 

 in Bering Sea. In all cnses, the command of a 

 vessel under orders to cruise in colonial waters 

 must be given to naval officers, who will thereby 

 find an opportunity to make themselves ac- 

 quainted with the r(nitine of colonial trans- 

 actions, while at the same time their rank will 

 give authority to our proceedings."^ 



' Vol. 1. p. 72. 



