790 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



evideiioe was called "Banjo BrowD." He had not been out sealing. 

 Another man was called "Sailor Jack." He was a boat-puller, I think. 



1 am called " Bonanza Jack." There must have been forty men alto- 

 gether, many of them knowing nothing of sealing. They were what 

 we called " longshoremen." I know many men that told me afterw^ards 

 that they knew nothing of sealing, but had been told the name of a 

 vessel to say they had been on, and were then asked to sign what the 

 man wrote down. Tliey went only for the dollar or so they got. 



For my part, I was asked the names of the vessels I had been on, 

 and told him no lies on this or on other matters. 



2. I have been out as mate and master, not as a hunter ever. All 

 that I know of sealing is what I could see from the deck of the vessel, 

 and from what the hunters told me. 



3. I was five years sealing, and have had a good deal of experience 

 with sealers. 



4. There is no getting out of the fact that there are more males taken 

 than lemales; if any one says that I ever told him that more females 

 were taken than nmles, he says what is not true. I could not have 

 said that, for if I had I would have told a lie. 



5. Each year I have found the seals on the coast about in the same 

 numbers; they are like the salmon, some years there are more than 

 others; but, taking it one year with another, they don't change much, 

 if at all. 



6. He (Williams) asked me about these things, but there was noth- 

 ing else, I think. 



7. He (Williams) did not read to me what was taken down by the 

 type- writer, nor did 1 read it. I was sim^ily asked to sign the papers; 



2 dollars were given me and I came away. This was the way every one 

 did. There was a big crowd of men outside his door; there must have 

 been about six men acting as "runners." I went, jnst through foolish- 

 ness, to see what was going on, and while there thought it would be no 

 harm to get 2 dollars, as I had nothing but truth to tell. I was doing- 

 nothing then. He kept me much longer than most of tlie others. They 

 wanted me to go back the next day, but I did not go. I saw how foolish 

 it was for a captain to be mixed up with a lot of men such as were there. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously beheving the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) John Morris. 



Subscribed and declared by the said John Morris before me, a ISTotary 

 Public duly commissioned and residing and practising at the city of 

 Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 27th day of Octo- 

 ber, A. D. 1892. 



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



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



171 Declaration of Henry Brown. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia,, City of Victoria,, 



I, Henry Brown, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, seaman, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I have been in sealing-vessels on the North Pacific Coast and 

 Behring Sea in the years 1890, 1891, and 1892. In 1890 I was a seaman 



