APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 787 



Subscribed and declared by the said Eicliard Hall before me, a Notary 

 Public duly commissioned, and residing- and practising- at the city of 

 Victoria, iu the Province of British Columbia, this 24th day of October, 

 A. D. 1892. 



[seal.] • (Signed) Arthur L, Belyea, 



A Notary Fuhlic in and for the Province of British Columbia. 



Declaration of Theodore Magnesen. 



Dominion op Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Theodore Magnesen, of the city of Victoria, and Province of British 

 Columbia, make oath and say: 



That I have been a navigator since I was 19 years old; I am now 34. 

 I have been navigating sealing-schooners for four years, and was master 

 of the " Sea Lion " in 1890. I went to San Francisco for my boats and- 

 outfit early in the season, and there I shipped Tliomas Brown as boat- 

 puller. We did some sealing on the way up, and got 203 seals for five 

 boats. From the boat Brown was in I got twenty-seven skins. The 

 hunter complained all the time that he was of no use, and I intended 

 to get rid of him the first place I came to, which was Victoria. Besides 

 being no good as a boat-steerer, he was a bad man. He is what we 

 call a " San Francisco bum," and no better evidence of his character 

 can be got than from the police at Victoria. He is a bad drinker, and 

 bad in every way. He knows nothing of sealing, and, besides, has not 

 sufticient judgment to form an opinion of anything. I could not think 

 of a more worthless man to ask to tell anything about seals. 



Among my crew when I went south was a man named Arthur Gififin. 

 He made the trip to San Francisco, but deserted when he got to Vic- 

 toria. He was with me two and ahalf or three months. This is his 

 first year as boat-steerer, and he had no experience of sealing. He was 

 a farmer boy, from Virginia, I think. 



(Signed) Theo. Magnesen. 



Sworn before me at Victoria, iu the Province of British Columbia, 

 this 5th day of October, a. d. 1892. 

 [seal.] (Signed) Thomas Shotbolt, 



Justice of the Peace for the Province of British Columbia. 



1G9 Declaration of George McDonald, 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 

 I, George McDonald, of the City of Victoria, in the Province of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, and Dominion of Canada, master mariner, do solemnly 

 declare as follows : 



1. That I personally know Fred. Smith, who was a hunter on the 

 schooner " Mascotte" last year. I have known him for six years. He 

 was "rivet boy" at the Albion Iron Works in this city until he went 

 out sealing. He is about 18 years old — certainly not over 19. 



2. I do not consider him competent to give an opinion on sealing 

 matters, nor would I value his ojjiuiou or judgment ou any matter. 



