120 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



son, a considerable number of tlie far-seals rongreg'ate in 

 the vicinity of banks and islands in that central part of 

 tbe Pacific, in addition to tbe jireater nnmbers found dur- 

 ing tbe same season along tlie British Columbian and Jap- 

 anese coasts. In res])ect to these seals it is impossible to 

 say whether they principally resort to Pribyloff, Com- 

 mander, Kurile, or Kobben Islands during the season of 

 procreation. 



Ibid., pp. 25-27. r£^Q evidcuce on this point will be found in the Appendix. 



Ibid., p. 128. ^ few degrees north of the latitude just referred to seals 

 were seen by Warren F. Upson, who says: 



138 I have crossed from San Francisco to Yokohama many times, 

 and have taken many different conrses. In conrses made I'rom 



35*^ to 45° have seen seals off and on every day all the way across in 

 Jannary, February, and March. 



.. Appendix, vol. Captain Adolphe Carlson states that he crossed from 

 "'^' ■ Yokohama to San Francisco in the mail-steamer " Gallic," 



making a course 45° north, and saw seals more or less 

 every day in the month of January. He returned in the 

 beginning of February on a course about 30° north, and 

 again saw seals almost daily during the voyage. 



Ibid., vol. i, p. Mr. J. M. Maconn, while in Vi(tt(nia in June 1892, was 

 shown a chart on which was marked the track of the seal- 

 ing-schoouer "Mary Taylor," which had been sent to look 

 for fur-seals north of the Sandwich Islands. Her captain 

 reported that in November and December 1891, he had 

 seen seals for six weeks between latitude 30° and 40° 

 north, and in about the longitude of the Sandwich Islands, 

 but that the weather had been too rough to permit of a 

 boat being lowered. 



Ibid., voi.ii, p. Captain William Grant, quoting from his diary, says that 

 on the 3rd December, 1890, when on the steam-ship " Par- 

 thia," in latitude 42° 29' north, longitude 157° 35' east, 

 large schools of seals were for several hours seen from the 

 ship. They were heading for the south. When captain of 

 the barque "'George" he had on three different trips seen 

 seals at about the same place. 



ii)id., p. 214. Captain Marshall, of the mail steam-ship "Empress of 

 India," in voyages between Yokohama and Vancouver, 

 reports having seen great numbers of fur-seals in latitude 

 40° -Jl' north, longitude 143° to 145° west, on the 18th 

 April, 1892; and again on the 19th and 20th May in the 

 same year, between latitudes 38° and 40° north and longi- 

 tudes 140° and 169° east. 



INTERMINGLING NEAR BEIIRING STRAIT. 



Still further, in connection with the subject of inter- 

 mingling of fur-seals from the two sides of the North Pacific, 

 Mr. A. C. Folger gives the following statement respecting 

 the occasiotml presence of fur-seals in the vicinity of Beli- 

 riug Strait, in respect to which it is in)possible to decide 

 whether they have arrived there from the eastern or west- 

 ern part of Behring Sea. Mr. Folger says: 



Ibid., p. 90. I have seen Eskimo wearing' clothes made of fur-seal skins 



139 when north of Behring Straits when trading there, and I once 

 saw a fur-seal lassoed when north of East Cape; and on the 



same cruise the captain in my presence shot a fur-seal from the deck 



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