568 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



G. Dishoic. — "This year the ' Umbriiia' retarued from the Commander 

 Islands between 10th September and 1st October. I saw seals in large 

 numbers all the way over about 200 miles south of the Aleutian 

 Islands, to within 200 miles of Queen Charlotte Islands. The year 

 before [1891J I saw seals along the same course a couple of weeks 

 earlier, but not in so large a number." 



Captain A. B. Bissett. — "I left the other [Asiatic] side 2l8t Septem- 

 ber last [1892], and arrived home 14th October iustant. I sailed south- 

 erly to the 40th parallel, and thence easterly to Victoria. I saw seals 

 nearly every day until we got within 500 or 600 miles of Vancouver 

 Island. We here entered very bad weather, and did not notice the 

 seals. There was scarcely a watch that did not report seeing seals. 

 On two days I saw seals enough to justify lowering a boat, had the 

 weather not been so heavy. This was about the 173rd meridian west, 

 on the 49th parallel. 



"From my experience and observation I believe that immense num- 

 bers of the seals that go up this coast never enter Behring Sea. I know 

 that all through the summer and early fall that seals are scattered over 

 the North Pacific north of Vancouver Island, and as far as the 165th 

 meridian east. I have compared notes with other masters, sailing both 

 earlier and later than myself, and I have found all reporting seals 

 scattered over the ocean from one side to the other." 



Captain Herman R. Smith. — "On my return home [from Commander 

 Islands, 1892] I sailed south from Attn Island to between the 49tli and 

 50th parallel north latitude, then east, for home. I saw seals scattered 

 all along the route home, and at the dates and places given here I saw 

 more than usual, and entered the fact in my log. The entries are as 

 follows : 



September 9.-49° 58' north, 176° 58' west. 

 " 11.-50° 4' " 168*^ 32' " 



" 15.— 49044' " 156'-~ 4' " 



" 21.— 49^^ 44' " 1320 56' " 



"On all these days at these places I saw numbers of seals, though 

 the weather was rough." 



Captain Theodor Magnesen. — "As I came home [from Asiatic side, 

 1892] I saw quite a number of seals south of the Aleutian Islands in 

 September. This was a little to the westward of the 172nd meridian, and 

 from 20 to 50 miles from the islands." 



Ernest Lorenz. — " On the way over [to Asiatic side] I saw seals from 

 80 to 100 miles south of the Aleutian Islands and about the 180th 

 meridian; also off the 172nd Pass. I don't know whether were going 

 to the Pribyloff or Commander Islands." 



Emil Ramlose. — "This year [1892] I went over to the Russian side, 

 and on the way home our vessel went in to Adkah Island to water. 

 Seals were seen between K^maga Island and that island. We were 

 about 10 miles from land then." 



C. A. Williams. — "This year, on the way home [from Commander 

 Islands], I saw seals in mid-ocean. I have seen them every year [five 

 years] this way. 



"On the passage home from Petropaulsky, and when about 800 miles 



from Cape Flattery, I saw seals at sea Both years [1891-92], 



when going to the Copper Islands, I saw seals all the way across along 

 the Aleutian Islands, and this year I saw seals in mid-ocean on the 

 course home. I have seen them every year this way." 



