APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 805 



nary circumstances any pup seal, when pupped, will live without care 

 from the mother seal. 



(Signed) August Tychson. 



Sworn to at Victoria, British Columbia, this 6th day of May, 1892. 



(Signed) E. P. Marvin, J. P. 



Statement by James Robert Jamieson. 



James Eobert Jamieson, sealer, of Victoria, British Columbia, makes 

 the following statement: 



A young man, a stranger to me, met me on or about the 20th April, 

 1892, and told me that Major Williams, Representative of the United 

 States Government, was at the Driard Hotel, View Street, Victoria, 

 and that he (Major Williams) wanted sealers to go to the Driard and 

 tell what they knew about sealing. 



I went to the Driard Hotel, and met the gentleman called Major 

 Williams, who questioned me about sealing. 



Major Williams asked me the following questions, to which I gave 

 the following replies as near as I can remember: 



"How many schooners had you been in?" 



I told him I had been in" the " Mary Taylor," " Mountain Chief," 

 "Adele," "Teresa," "Molly Adams" (now called "E. B. Marvin"), 

 "Mascotte," "Venture," and "Minnie." 



"What was the catch of each schooner'?" 



I told him "Mary Taylor," about 800 seals; "Mountain Chief," about 

 70 seals; "Adele," about 800; "Teresa, about 400; "Molly Adams" (now 

 the "E. B. Marvin"), about 2,000; "Venture," about (>75; "Minnie," 

 about 5; "Mascotte," about 4, during the time I was aboard of them. 

 And Major Williams asked me several other questions, and gave me 2 

 dollars tor my evidence. 



I consider I have had as much experience as most sealers out of 

 this port, I have studied the habits of seals closely during the six 

 seasons I have been sealing. I do not believe the seals are decreasing. 

 I think the average hunter would miss one-third the seals shot at. I 

 never saw seals on the way to Behring Sea that had given birth to 

 young. Not over one in forty of the females caught on the coast en route 

 to Behring Sea were with pup inside, or accompanied by pup. The 

 Indians use spears, and white hunters use shot-guns and ritles to kill 

 the seals. Not over one seal in twenty escapes after being shot by 

 the hunter. 



During the time I have been sealing I have always seen three or four 

 seals caught in Behring Sea to one caught on the coast. In all the 

 time I have been sealing I never knew the sealers to go within 15 miles 

 of the land after seals. 



(Signed) Jambs Egbert Jamieson. 



Sworn to at Victoria, British Columbia, by the said James Robert 

 Jamieson, this 29th April, 1892. 



(Signed) E. B. Marvin, J. P. 



