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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



and beavers will be carried into 

 etiect at once. From the lur-seal 

 skins on band U),()i»0 bare been 

 packed and forwarded by tbe sbip 

 "Czarevitch" to Kronstadt: 5,000 

 skins will be put aside for shipment 

 to Kiakhta by way of Ayan, and 

 the remainder, about 5.000 skins, 

 not including grays, will be for- 

 warded to New York, together with 

 all the beaver-skins which can be 

 collected, except the 2,000 skins 

 destined for Kiakhta. 



The fur-seal skins require no 

 working over in New Archangel, 

 but when the fact is taken into con- 

 sideration that they will have to 

 stand the passage across the Equa- 

 tor and the Tropics twice, it Avill 

 hardly be safe to send them to New 

 York, as indicated in the despatch 

 of the Board, in the same pack- 

 ages in which they are received 

 from the various districts, i. e., in 

 bundles of several tens of skins, 

 bound by leather straps. 



According to information re- 

 ceived by me from Messrs. Lobech 

 and Sheppler, the people at New 

 York were greatly i)leased with the 

 way in which our skins were for- 

 warded and packed, the same hav- 

 ing been received in good order, and 

 it is probable that it would be bet- 

 ter to continue packing in the same 

 way, and, by way of experi- 

 49 ment, to send two or three 

 packages in the condition in 

 which they are received from the 

 colonial districts. 



Messrs. Lobech and Sheppler ad- 

 vised that in packing the skins 

 should not be folded on account of 

 their liability to break at the folds ; 

 this advi(;e will be followed in 

 future in shipping of skins around 

 the world. 



The salting of fur-seals, which 

 had been stopped by order of the 

 Board, will be renewed next year; 

 but inasmuch as the orders to that 

 effect will reach the Islands of St. 

 Paul and St. George not earlier 

 than in tlio summer of that year; 

 the receii)t of a sufficient number 



beavers given in those despatches 

 Avill be carried into due execution. 

 But of the seal-skins now on hand 

 10,000 are packed up, which will be 

 sent by the ship "Cesarevitch" to 

 Kronstadt, 5,000 will be set apart 

 for shipment to Kiachta by way of 

 Ayan, and the remainder, of which 

 there will be about 9,000 (leaving 

 out the small gray seal skins), will 

 be sent to New York, together with 

 as many beaver-skins as can be 

 collected after putting aside 2,000 

 of them for Kiachta. 



The seal-skins need no prepara- 

 tion at New Archangel, but it would 

 hardly be safe to ship tliem to New 

 York in the same packing (as 

 directed in the despatch of the 

 Board of Administration) in which 

 tliej^ are received from the dis- 

 tricts — that is to say, tied up only 

 with straps in bundles of several 

 tens each — owing to the fact that 

 they must bear trans])ortation 

 twice across the Tropics and the 

 Equator. 



From information received by me 

 from Messrs. Lobach and Shepler, 

 of New York, they are very well 

 satisfied with thei)ackiugin which 

 our goods were shipped there, as 

 they arrived in good condition, and 

 it would probably be better, in send- 

 ing goods in the previous packing, 

 to send oidy one or two bundles as 

 an experiment in. the packing in 

 which they are received from the 

 districts of the Colonies. 



Messrs. Lobach and Shepler ad- 

 vise me, in packing the skins taken, 

 not to double them because they 

 break at the folds, by which advice 

 I will be guided in future in ship- 

 ping goods around the world. 



The salting of the seal-skins, 

 which was stopped by order of the 

 Board of Administration, will be 

 reconmienced next year; butasthe 

 instructions on this subject will 

 reach the Islands of St. Paul and 

 St. George only in the summer of 

 next year, it is impossible to guar- 



