COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 59 



tLe original letter is examined, it will be found that it had 

 1)0 relation whatever to the protection of seals at sea, but 

 related entirely to the taking of seals on the Islands of St. 

 Paul and St. George, and the Commander Islands; and it 

 has, therefore, no bearing upon the present argument. 



The letter of the Board, dated the 20th March, 1 853, from iwd-, pp-^62-66. 

 which several quotations are made at pp. 02-00 of the translation,' ^"06 

 United States Case, deserves more attention. Appendix, vol. 1, 



The first quotation is as follows: 



The board of Administratiou respectfully requests that, in case the 

 interests of the Company require a dcTiation from our plans, your 

 Excellency will never lose sight of the fact J^that the interests of 

 T HE Company are centered at the present time in the di.s- 



TRK'T SURROUNDING THE SEAL ISLANDS OF THE PRIHYLOF AND COM- 



MANDER (iROUPS, AND] that cousequently the colonial waters 



66 must be visited by the Company's cruizers constantly and in 

 every part, in order to watch and warn the foreign whalers. 



This is twice quoted in the United States Case, and spe- United states 

 cial attention is directed to it at p. 03, as a communication ^^'''P^'' ' 

 which — 



throws much light upon the commercial activity of the Russian- 

 American Company, and may he accepted as indicative of the methods 

 by Avhich, during the last term of its charter, it enforced its control, 

 in the colonial waters. . . . 



The value of this passage for the purpose for which it is 

 quoted is, however, entirely destroyed by the discovery that 

 the words which have been here printed within brackets 

 are mere interpolations in the text of ^.he despatch, and do 

 not exist in the original Eussian. 



The second passage is as follows: 



_ [This agen t must o bserve an d keep a record of all foreign ibid., p. 63. 



SHIPS SEEN DURING THE VO YAGE, AND OF THE POSITION OF THE SAME (For revised 

 WHEN OBSERVED, FOR THE INFORAIATION OF COMAIANDERS OF OUR Appendix, vol. i' 

 ARMED CRUIZERS AND OF TIIE COLONIAL AUTH( )liITIES IN 8ITKA, KaM- ]>■ 37.) 

 CHATKA, AND AYAN. ] —=———=— ^—i—^— .^^-^— 



1^0 part of this passage is to be found in the original 

 Eussian. 



The third quotation is of greater length than the others, United states 

 and refers to what is termed in the United States Case a ''^®' pp- ®*-''''- 

 ''protective scheme." The inaccuracies of the translation 

 of this passage are too numerous to be here noticed, but 

 may be seen at once by a comparison with the literal trans- 

 lation in the Appendix to this Counter-Case. i, ^!'38'39.^' ^*''' 



Throughout this despatch, when correctly translated, ' 

 there is no mention whatever of the protection of the fur- 

 seals. It is true that instructions are given to watch 

 until — 



the foreign whalers eave Behring Sea, viz., the last part of August Ibid., p. 3 8, 

 or the beginning of September, paragraphs. See 



also last p ara- 



but the only indication given as to the object of suche'"^"^^^'' of de- 

 watching is to be found in the following words: spate i. 



To keep watch over the foreign whalers and the Englishmen, with ibid.,p.30,par- 

 regard to the trade carried on by them with our savages. agrapli 5. 



