50 HABITS OF THE FUR-SEALS. 



Data from which from the captains and hands of sealing vessels 



the charts were 



compiled. met in Victoria and Vancouver and from the in- 



habitants of various places touched at during the 



insufficiency of summer » (g ec# 210). The United States deny 

 that the data collected by the American and 

 British cruisers warranted such construction of 

 the charts Nos. Ill and IV or of that part of 

 chart No. II which purports to give the summer 

 resort of the two great seal herds. And the 

 United States claim that the "information" ob- 

 tained "in various other ways" should have no 

 influence upon the Tribunal, inasmuch as the 

 evidence or statements thus relied upon are not 

 presented and the Commissioners have even 

 failed to give the names of their informants. 



Principal data It ig evident, from the particular manner in 



relied upon. x 



which the Report describes the way in which 

 the data collected by the war ships of the two 

 nations were taken (Sees. 210, 212, 213), that 

 such data were their principal source of informa- 

 tion ; but it is contended that the observations 

 of seals, reported by the vessels, do not sustain 

 the assumed density and distribution of seal life 

 in Bering Sea which is made to appear by the 

 charts above referred to. In support of these 

 denials the United States produce the copies of 

 the data relied upon, compiled from the seal logs 

 of the British cruisers by the British Commis? 



