112 MANAGEMENT. 



Error in state- the Museum of Comparative Zoology", page 88, 



uient relied on by L °- / ' r ° 7 



Report. wherein he quotes from a letter received by him 



from Capt. Bryant, " under date of June 14, 

 1870," as follows : "The present year unusually 

 large numbers have been seen off the coasts 

 of Oregon, Washington Territory, and British 

 Columbia. * * * They were mostly of 

 very young seals, none appearing to be over a 

 year old." An examination of the "Bulletin" 

 on this point by the Commissioners would have 

 revealed the error in the later publication, used 

 by them in their Report, and the further fact 

 that these pup-seals could not have been of 

 sufficient age, while on the Islands, to have 

 been affected by any slaughter whatsoever. 



ALLEGED FRAUDULENT ADMINISTRATION ON THE PRIB- 

 ILOF ISLANDS. 



indirect charges As already noted (ante p. 68), the British 



of fraud in Report. ~ , . , , . , 



Commissioners have, without making actual 

 charges of fraud, insinuated and apparently en- 

 deavored to give the impression that fraud was 

 perpetrated on the Pribilof Islands by the former 

 lessees, the Alaska Commercial Company, in 

 taking sealskins therefrom over and above the 

 number allowed annually by the lease. This 

 The parties CO vert charge of maladministration is a reflec- 



charged. ° 



tion upon the integrity of the United States 



