APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 705 



I am a citizen of the United States. 



That year (1889) we sealed along the coast and into Behring- Sea. I 

 was not out again until 1891, when I was out in the same vessel as 

 master. 



In 1889 I sealed up the coast aud went into BehringSea, and in 1891 

 I sealed along the coast as before, but went then to the Eussian side 

 of Behring Sea. I do not hunt myself. 



I found the seals as plentiful in 1891 as in the former year, and made 

 a large catch on the coast, but the seals were very much wilder and 

 harder to get than in the former year. I had a better lot of hunters 

 than the average. 



I have noticed that seals sometimes travel in schools, and 

 116 have seen them in schools south of Cape Flattery, as well as 

 farther north. When seals are in schools they are very difticult 

 to get at, and We count on getting very few at such times. 



I have noticed that when the seals were brought on board there 

 were always both males and females, and know from that that both 

 sexes are found together. I have never counted the seals to see whether 

 there were more males than females among those taken. 



I think that when the lease of the Alaska Commercial Company 

 expired a proper guard should have been placed on the islands, and no 

 seals killed there at all. They should be protected while breeding, and 

 there would then be no danger of their growing less at sea. 



As a schooner owner I know that there can never be more schooners 

 than at present engaged in this business at a profit, for even though 

 the seals do not decrease, the catch per individual schooner will not 

 pay expenses, and if the seals decrease the number of schooners must 

 grow less. It costs a good deal of money to outfit a schooner properly, 

 and when the catches are not good then there is of course a great loss. 



There should, I think, be a heavy penalty for raiding on the islands, 

 and there ought to be a sufiicient guard placed there to make a success- 

 ful raid impossible. I don't know personally of any raids having been 

 made on the islands, but last year I met a man at Allatak Bay, Kadiak 

 Island, who said he had been raiding on the Pribyloff Islands in August 

 1890, and as I remember it now there was some talk of a raid being- 

 made on the islands that season, 1891. The man I saw was then on a 

 schooner called the " Pearl," I think, of which Edward Littlejohn was 

 captain. 



There is no difference, as far as I could ever see, between the seals 

 on the Asiatic side of Behring Sea and on the American side as regards 

 size, shape, general appearance, &c. 



I feel quite sure that there are not fewer seals now than six or eight 

 years ago, for while there were many fewer vessels then than now the 

 catches were, as a rule, not so large. 



I have read the statements written down in this affidavit, and swear 

 that they are all true, and that no consideration has been given me for 

 having made them. 



(Signed) Henry Stewart Algar. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me the 12th October, 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) C. D. Emery, 



Notary Public resident at Seattle, 



B S, PT VIII 45 



