728 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



I have not been paid nor promised anything in consideration of 

 making the foregoiug statement, which I have read over and found 

 correct. 



(Signed) F. J. Orockek. 



Subscribed and sworn before me, this 1st day of December, 1892. 

 [SEAL.] (Signed) Lincoln Sonntag, Notary Public. 



Deposition of William C'onners. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



William Conners, of San Francisco, being duly sworn, deposes and 

 swears : 



Am a resident of San Francisco, an Americij,n subject, and a seal- 

 hunter. I began sealing in 1886, and with the exception of one year 

 (1889) have hunted every year since. 



In 1886 I hunted in the "Theresa," 1887 in the '^ Challenge," 1888 the 

 "Mountain Chief," 1890 "C. G. White," and last year in the "Lily L." 



This year I hunted in the "Louis Olsen." 

 130 In the "Theresa" — I joined her at Victoria, in the month of 



April — and between that and the Shmnagin Islands we got 107 

 seals. We then went into the Behring Sea, and got over 2,000 seals. 



In 1887, on the "Challenge," we got 108 seals, and were then seized — 

 the first vessel seized that year. The reason given for seizing us was 

 that we were taking female seals, for we had not got into Behring Sea. 



In 1888 I was on the " Mountain Chief," and we were so late leaving 

 Victoria — 10th June — that we didn't get any seals on the coast. We 

 got 894 seals in the Behring Sea. 



On the "C. G.White," we started directly for the Japan coast on the 

 15th February, and picked up 25 on the American coast. We got 476 

 on the Japan coast, and then came to Copper Island, and got 59 seals. 

 We stayed there four or five days, when the six boats got lost, and the 

 schooner was brought back here by the captain and cabin boy. My 

 boat and another landed on the island, and we gave ourselves up. We 

 were kept there two weeks, and the Alaska Commercial Company sent 

 us here by the steamer "Karlike," reaching here on the 9th September. 

 Three of the boats attempted to land, and were tired on by the Russians ; 

 one man was killed, and two others wounded. Seven bullets went 

 through the boats. 



Last year, in the " Lily L.," on the coast, we got 567 seals and came 

 home. We went out on the 28th January, and stayed about seven 

 months. 



This year, in the "Louis Olsen," on our way to the Japan coast we 

 got about 20 on the American coast, and we got 1,342 on the Japan 

 coast. 



My individual take as a hunter the tirst year I was out, in the 

 "Theresa," I got 436 seals. The next year, in the "Challenge," I got 

 only 22, as we were seized. The next year, in the " Mountain Chief," I 

 got 368. The following year I didn't hunt; and in 1890, in the " C. G. 

 White," I got 108. We were the first schooner from San Francisco that 

 went to the Japan coast, and we got lost, which accounts for our small 

 catch. In 1891, on the "Lily L.," I got 93 on the coast; we didn't go 

 into Behring Sea. This year I got 259 seals on the Japanese coast. 



We always use rifle and shot-gun. 



