214 OFFICIAL REPORTS. 



District of Columbia, 



City of Washington, ss: 

 O. L. Hooper, being- duly sworn, deposes and says: 

 I am the person who signed the foregoing document, and I know its 

 contents to be true. The document is an exact transcript from a por- 

 tion of the log, that is to say, the official record of the voyage of the 

 revenue steamer Corwin, except that a few clerical errors appearing in 

 said log bave been corrected and a few abbreviations, such as NW., 

 SW. ; &c, written out in full. 



C. L. Hooper, 

 Captain United States Revenue Marine. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of December, 1892. 



Report of Captain Hooper, dated September 6, 1892. 



Kevenue Marine Steamer Corwin, 



September 6, 1802. 

 Commander E, D. Evans, 



U. S. S. Yorlctoivn, Commanding U. S. Naval Force in Bering Sea : 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following account of the move- 

 ments of this vessel since the date of my last report, August 17. 



We completed coaling on the morning of August 19, having filled the 

 bunkers, and taken 17 tons on deck in sacks. Leaving the coal wharf 

 at Dutch Harbor we steamed into Hnalaska inner harbor, where 

 Treasury Agent J. Stanley-Brown, his assistant H. Chichester, and 

 Naturalist C. H. Townsend left the vessel to take passage to Victoria 

 on the British transport Danube. At 2 :00 p. m. we got under way from 

 the inner harbor and steamed to sea. At 3 :45 stopped to speak Ameri- 

 can Ship America in answer to a signal. The ship was becalmed and 

 the master requested that she be towed further out to sea. She being 

 in a fairly good position for a wind in any direction and in no danger, 

 and it being important that the Corwin get back to the islands and 

 carry out the duty assigned her, this request was not complied with. 

 The following magnetic bearings of prominent points taken at the time 

 show the position of the vessel: Friest Eock, Kalakta Head NE. x E 

 £ E. Waterfall, Cape Cheerful SW. x W. £ W. Ulakta Head SSE. 



Proceeded on our course for the islands. Half an hour after a light 

 SW. wind sprang up and as soon as we opened out past Cape Cheerful 

 a heavy westerly wind was encountered. 



On the 20th wind from NNE. to NW.; weather overcast and at times 

 foggy ; running for St. George Island ; scattering seals were seen through- 

 out the day, At 4 p. m. caught a glimpse of what was supposed to be 

 land and hauled in NE. for it. At 4:50 hearing breakers, stopped and 

 sounded in 33 fathoms; fog lifting a few minutes later made land near 

 Dalnoi, and at 6 :15 p. m. came to anchor off St. George village in 7 

 fathoms of water, too rough to land; remained at anchor during the 

 night. On the 21st, at 4 a. m. got under way for St. Paul Island and 

 arrived at 9:30. Landed 2nd Lieutenant D, J. Ainsworth to act as 

 special agent, relieving Special Agent Murray in obedience to orders 



