COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 245 



MR. GLIDDEN, 1882-85. 



Mr. H. A. Glidden, a Special Agent of the Treasury- 

 Department at the Pribyloff Islands from 1882 to 1885, in 

 answer to the question — 



And then at the killing-ground who superintends the selection of g^' ^nd Sess*^ 

 those to be killed ? No. 3883, p. 20." ' 



says : 



They are there huddled up, and then they are separated, about fifty H. TV. Elliott, 

 at a time — coralled as it were — and the Superintendent of that [the j^ H. R., 44 th 

 separating] is one of the employes of the Company. Eeport^ No^'e'ls' 



MR. CLARK, 1884-89. ^' 



One of the witnesses quoted in the Case of the United 

 States, Mr. H. N. Clark, gives the following evidence, from 

 which it clearly appears that he, as a Comijany's officer, 

 was personally in charge of the sealing and natives con- 

 ducting it: 



From 1884 to 1889, inclusive, I was in the employ of the Alaska United States 

 Commercial Company of San Francisco, on St. George Island, Alaska, Case, p. 148; Ap- 

 engaged through each sealing season as boss of a gang of seal-hunters, JJ™ 'vko' 159 "' 

 and in the winter excepting that of 1886 aud 1887 as teacher and store- ' 



keeper on the island. My work as the leader of the sealing gang gave 

 me as perfect opportunity as could be had for studying the habits and 

 peculiarities of the seal and determining the best manner of caring for 

 them. 



THE company's AGENTS EXERCISED SIMILAR CONTROL 



OF KILLING IN 1892. 



Mr. Macoun, also, reports that all work connected ^ Appendix, vol. 

 287 with the choice of hauling-grouuds from which seals ^'^' 



should be driven, the driving of the seals to the 

 killing-ground, aud the selection there of those that were 

 to be killed, was done by the agents of the Company, or 

 the natives acting under their instructions, during the 

 season of 1892, when he was on the islands. 



