664 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



.The reason the Alaska Comraerical Company put tlieir stamp on all 

 the money used by them was that they learned we had men on shore 

 in our pay. The only thing the natives would take was sugar and sil- 

 ver, and the Company would allow no silver to be used but what was 

 stamped. This was on the Commander Islands. The time I spoke of 

 above when the " Leon " could not protect the Eobben Eeef, they deter- 

 mined not to let us have the skins, and Captain iUair-killed all he could 

 get at. Captain Blair told me himself that he killed 3,500, They did 

 not skin them; they cut them up the back and cut them across, and 

 left them rotting there. I and many other men went to work and buried 

 them so that the seals might come back ; they would come right back 

 that year. 



14. I have read carefully everything that is written above and declare 

 that it is all true. 



15. I believe that the seals ought to be protected, but 1 and all other 

 United States hunters Thave talked with believe that it is not right 

 that a Company should have all the seals; we say, let the Government 

 do the protecting, and give every man a chance to make an honest 

 living. 



10. Major Williams sent for me last sj)ring several times by a man 

 named Dillon, whom I knew to be in the employ of the United States 

 Government. I went to the Driard Hotel, and after waiting there for 

 an hour or two my evidence was not taken. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of " The Act respecting Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) A. C. Folger. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Albert C. Folger before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 fcity of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 8th day of 

 November, A. d. 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) Arthur L. Belyea, 



A Notary Fublic in and for the Province of British Columbia, 



90 Second Declaration of Captain Albert C. Folger. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Captain Albert C. Folger, at present of the city of Victoria and 

 Province of British Columbia, do solemnly declare as follows : 



1. That while I at present reside in Victoria, I owe my allegiance to 

 the United States of America. 



2. I have hunted sea-otter and fur-seal for nineteen years, five voy- 

 ages being made from Yokohama towards the northward along the 

 Japan coast in search of these animals, as is more set forth in another 

 solemn declaration made by me. 



3. During that time I prospected the whole of the Islands of the 

 Kurile group in search of fur-seal, and made many voyages up and 

 down the coast, and have very often many times during each summer. 

 I voyaged from the Kurile group to the Commander Islands and back 

 again — this was in 1879, and the years immediately following or pre- 

 ceding that year we used to leave San Francisco in March, and would 

 be back there in Sex)tember. 



