28 PERIOD FOLLOWING THE TREATIES. 



Evidence of Englishmen with regard to the trade carried on 



surveillance over 



Bering Sea. by them with our savages." 1 



One of the concluding injunctions of this letter 

 to the chief manager is as follows: "That the co- 

 lonial seas, so far as possible, be visited in every 

 part by the Company's cruisers for the pur- 

 pose of keeping watch over the foreigners, and 

 for this purpose, in giving instructions to our crui- 

 sers, that you conform yourself to the intended 

 movements of the Company's whaling vessels, 

 which can also do duty as cruisers if they are 

 carrying on their fishery in Bering Sea, and pro- 

 vide that the Company's vessels designated for 

 visiting the many islands of the colonies be, so 

 far as possible, under the command of naval 

 officers." 1 



On the 20th of June, 1861, the chief manager 

 wrote to Benzeman, of the imperial navy: "It 

 has come to my knowledge that two whal- 

 ing vessels have been sent this year from San 

 Francisco to trade on the Pribilof Islands. I 

 therefore request your excellency, during the 

 time appointed for your voyage, to do duty as a 

 cruiser on the exact basis of the instructions 

 herewith inclosed, which have been approved by 

 the Emperor." 2 



1 Post, p. 161. 

 * Post, p. 162. 



