510 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



a bunch of eight or ten. When frightened they did not go out to sea, but kept along 

 the shore or went into one of the narrow channels that separate the rocky islets 

 lying oil the main island. 



(Siguedj N. E. Gardner, ) 



D. McCall, > Seamen. 



Hugh Renny, ) 

 G. G. Gei«)W, Seal-hunter, 

 Wm. Owen, Cliie/ Mate. 



Appendix (B). 

 Declaration of Blchard Maynard. 



Dominion of Canada, Province of British Coluvibia, City of Victoria. 



I, Richard Maynard, of the city of Victoria, and Province of British Columbia, do 

 solemnly declare: 



1. That during the latter part of the month of July, and for nearly the whole of 

 the month of August, I was emploj'ed in taking photographs on the Pribyloff Islands, 



2. That on the 23rd day of August, 1892, I visited Tolstoi Rookery,' on St. Paul 

 Island, in company with Lieutenant Ainsworth, Assistant Treasury Agent on St. Paul 

 Island, Mr. Mucoun, an Agent of the British Government, and Antone Melovedoft', 

 chief boatman in the employ of the North American Commercial Company. 



3. We walked to that part of Tolstoi Rookery on which dead pups were lying in 

 great numbers, and while we were all standing within a few yards of the limit of 

 the ground on which these dead pups were, Mr. Macoun asked Antone Melovedoff 

 whether he thought there were as many of them as there were last year, to which 

 he replied, "More; more than I ever saw before." I was asked by Mr. Macoun to 

 particularly note what was said, and did so. 



4. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be 

 true, and by virtue of '.' The Act respecting Extra-.Judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) Richard Maynard. 



Declared before me at the city of Victoria, British Columbia, this 5th day of 

 November, 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) A. St. G. Flint, 



Notary Public for British Columbia. 



Appendix (C). 



Captain Parr to Rear-Admiral Hoiham. 



"Melpomene," at Esquimalt, October 26, 1S92. 

 Sir: In answer to your Memorandum of the 12th instant, with the attached letter 

 from Mr. J. M. Macoun, I have the honour to forward herewith a copy of the log of 

 this ship, so far as it relates to the weather experienced while cruizing in the 

 Behriug Sea. 



2. There is also entered the days when observations for determiuing the position 

 were obtained, or the reverse, and this appears to me to be the most important 

 point with regard to vessels having to keep outside a certain limit; for I take it 

 that that limit would be such a distance from the islands that even in the clearest 

 weather bearings would be uuobtainable. 



3. With reference to the possibility of any other sealing-schoouers having been 

 taking seals in the neighbourhood of the Pribyloft' Islands besides those captured, I 

 have heard it stated that one vessel claimed to have done so to the extent of some 

 100 skins, but 1 think even that is doubtful. If the total number of seals killed in 

 Behring Sea by sealing-schoouers is taken at 500, I should say that it would largely 

 exceed the nuirk. 



I have, &c. 



(Signed) A. A. C. Parr. 



