192 AVES ISLAND. 



and desert isle, in Aprils 1854, by tlie agent of said Pliilo 

 S. Shelton, in the brig John R, Dow, owned by him, bur- 

 den 197|-5- tons, being the value of the hire of said brig 

 and the wages of an extra crew, consisting of eleven or 

 twelve men, and provisioning said crew and insurance of 



said brig so employed, say nearly three months |3,000 



(See depositions before referred to, and other proofs, with 

 our attorney in Venezuela. See Captain G-ibbs's Ans. to 

 int. 3, p. 62, and to 10, p. 73, as to expenses, and Gap- 

 tain Wheeler's affidavit, p. 90.) 



XV. These claimants conceive also they have a just 

 claim to reimbursement of the expenses, losses, and dam- 

 ages occasioned by the relinquishment, by Philo S. Shel- 

 ton, of his guano trade at Arenas, in the Gulf of Mexico, 

 and the abandonment of his wharf and houses there, and 

 by the sacrifices and losses by reason of his being obliged 

 to trans]3ort his workmen thence to New Orleans, and to 

 sell his implements at New Orleans at a sacrifice, and the 

 expenses of said transportation, in order to take possession 

 of said isle ; all of which are properly chargeable to the 

 expenses of making the settlement and establishment in 

 said isle, and which were lost to claimants by said evic- 

 tion, and which amounted to upwards of 3,500 



(See depositions before referred to, and other proofs, with 

 our attorney in Venezuela. See same as referred in XIV.) 



XVI. These claimants also claim for the value at said 

 isle of the timber, lumber, planks, iron bolts, rods, bars, 

 joists, pine boards, nails for houses, canvas, ropes, tackles 

 and pulleys, and other like materials for coverings and 

 awnings ; table, stools, benches, chairs, posts, poles, ma- 

 terials for bunks, used for the comfort of the workmen at 

 night, or when prevented from work in the day, and for 

 conveniences for sleeping, water-casks, water, provisions 

 and stores of various kinds, and spirituous liquors, and 

 oil and lamps, pots, kettles, pans, knives and forks, cups, 

 plates, and other dishes and utensils for cooking and for 

 the table, and medical and surgical instruments, etc. ; also, 

 two six-pounders, and two dozen muskets and twenty-five 

 large pistols, and ten Colt's revolvers and twenty-five cut- 

 lasses, and twenty-five boarding-pikes, and a magazine of 

 fixed ammunition, and powder and ball for cannon and 

 small arms, and an extra flag and flag-staff, a liberty pole, 

 &c. ; in fact, everything that was appropriate and neces- ' 

 sary for a company of forty men employed at a place where 

 nothing could be obtained except from such supplies. 

 Wheelbarrows, wheeling-plank, buckets, tubs, baskets, 

 shovels, spades, picks, hoes, rakes, drags, extra anchors 

 and cables wherewith to moor vessels at the isle when they 

 could not lie at the wharves or piers, and extra boats and 

 launches to load the guano on board such vessels, and some 

 of the other articles and property were also purchased and 



