804 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



3. Previous to the departure of the vessel "Emma and Louisa" this 

 year (1892) I measured the ammunition that was supplied to her for 

 the use of the seal-hunters, and charged her for the same in a book 

 kept for the purpose, and on her return I measured up and credited 

 her in the same book what she had left over and returned. 



4. On calculating what was used, I found that the amount did not 

 reach quite four shots for each skin that comprised her cargo on return; 

 this allowed for all ammunition used in practice, hunting game, signal- 

 ing, and other purposes. 



5. Nothing has been paid or promised me for making this statement, 

 which 1 have read over and found correct. 



(Signed) Geo. B. Barber, 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 9th day of December, A. d. 



1S<)2. 

 [seal.] (Signed) John Coffee, 



Notary Public in and for the City and County of 



San Francisco, State of California. 



[Note. — Affidavits of Frank W. Adams, p. 94, and Jim Narwassan, p. 140, belong 



here.] 



180 Statement by August Tychson. 



August Tychson, seal-hunter, of Victoria, British Columbia, makes 

 the following statt nient: 



On or about the 22nd day of April, 1892, a gentleman met me in 

 Victoria, British Columbia, and asked me to go to the Driard Hotel, 

 View Street, Victoria, British Columbia, and give evidence before 

 Major Williams, said to be acting for the United States Government, 

 on sealing and seal life. 



I went to the Driard Hotel, saw Major Williams. He asked me sev- 

 eral leading questions, to which I replied. 



Major Williams asked me, "New ('green') hunters destroy about 80 

 per cent, of the seals they shot atf 



I answered, "I do not believe they do; in fact I do not know how 

 many seals any hunter destroys; so far as I am personally concerned, 

 I never destroyed 1 per cent, of the seals I shot at." 



From the way Major Williams used the word "destroyed," I under- 

 stood it to mean that to "destroy" a seal was to wound it so that the 

 seal would escape* from the hunter and die afterwards. 



Major Williams wrote a number of questions and answers, and 

 requested me to sign them. The answers not being correct and in 

 accordance with facts, I positively refused to sign them. 1 have been 

 out sealing seven seasons, and have closely studied seals and their 

 habits. I have not seen many wounded seals. When I hit a seal I 

 nearly always get the seal. On the average not over 2 per cent, of the 

 seals shot get away after being shot. Seals are not decreasing in the 

 Pacific Ocean and Behring Sea. I saw more seals last year (1891) 

 than any former year since I have been sealing. 



In 188G when sealing 1 oj)ened a female seal and removed the pup 

 out of the female seal. The pup lived, and I believe that under ordi- 



