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Northeast Point, and I have known several to be so reported in one 

 day. It is a noted track for whalers, and it would be absurd to detain 

 every vessel that sailed past the islands. Suspicious looking schoon- 

 ers are watched with sufficient care. If the vessel the Commissioners 

 saw had undertaken to raid a rookery it would have met with a warm 

 reception. I do not pretend to say that the British Commissioners 

 were not vividly impressed with the events they record. I merely 

 state the facts as they were, so that everyone can form his own im- 

 pressions of them. 



Wm. H. Williams. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of December, 1892. 

 [seal.] Sevellon A. Brown, 



Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia. 



