792 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Subscribed and declared by tlie said G. C. Gerow before me, a Notary 

 Public duly coinmissioued, and residing and practising at tlie city of 

 Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 29tli day of October, 

 A. D. 181)2. 



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



A Xotary Fuhlic in and for the Frovince of British Coluinhia. 



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Affidavit of J. S. Fanning. 



I, J. S. Fanning, of the city of San Prancisco, in tlie State of Cali- 

 fornia, make oath and say: 



That when on the " Henry Dennis," a sealing-schooner, this 

 172 year, I saw a good deal of the steamer "• Corwiu,'' and that I was 

 once on board of her, and at that time I saw the hunters that 

 were on that vessel. 



There was one white hunter and his crew of two men and a canoe 

 with two Indians. I know the hunter George Brown very well, but 

 have never been out with him. One of the men on the '' Henry Dennis" 

 had been out with him on the '' Lily L." in 1890. He told me that Brown 

 was not a good hunter, not even a fair average hunter, and I heard the 



same storj^ from a man named , who was with him in 1890. 



Brown was not out in 1891. We heard on the " Corwiu " that he would 

 have the boat lowered when he saw a seal, and after having missed it 

 he would say that he had hit it and that it sank. This is the usual 

 excuse of a poor hunter. He was, I believe paid by the month, not by 

 the skins as in the usual way. He told me himself that he got good 

 pay. I Avas told when I saw him that he had so far got one skin. I 

 had taken at that time about 130 seals. I was told on the quarter- 

 deck of the "Corwin" that he was a good shot at birds on the wing, 

 but that he didn't have much success with seals. 



The Indian hunter was a good hunter. I have been told that he was 

 one of the best, if not the best hunter at ISTeah Bay. Neither I or awy 

 one else in the "Henry Dennis" considered that the work of the "Cor- 

 win" was a good test of what is to be done by sealers. I and others 

 on the " Henry Dennis" thought it strange that we were not asked to 

 give evidence. 



(Signed) J. S. Fanning-. 



Subscribed and sworn at the city of Victoria, Province of British 

 Columbia, this 30th day of September, A. d. 1892, the same having been 

 tirst read over to the deponent in my presence before me. 

 [SEAL,] (Signed) A. L. Belyea, 



A Notary Fuhlic by Royal Authority in and for the 



Frovince of British Columbia. 



Declaration of Charles Feters. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Frovince of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Charles Peters, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, do solemnly declare as follows: 

 1. I was mate of tlie "Mascotte," ou a sealing voyage last year. 



