814 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



186 2. I sealed this year (1892) on the Japanese coast, and returned 



to the port of San Francisco on the Cth day of August, and on 

 the following day entered at the Custom-house. 



3. Several days afterwards I went to the Custom-house to clear, so 

 that I might discharge my cargo, when I was there informed that I 

 must have my skins inspected before I could do so, as the Government 

 had appointed a man for that purpose. I had had my skins all baled 

 up, and was much annoyed at the idea of having to open them. 



4. In the evening of the day I speak of a mau came on board of my 

 vessel, and said he was the Inspector appointed by the Government for 

 the purpose of examining the sealskins coming into the port of San 

 Francisco, and produced a letter or something of that sort, which I did 

 not look at, but asked him his name, when he said Pelow, or Below, — I 

 cannot say which. I refused at first to allow it, afterwards consented 

 that he could come on the following morning and proceed with the 

 work. This he did, and the inspection lasted several hours. I cannot 

 say how long, but he proceeded in the same manner that a buyer does^ 

 and just as 1 would were I about to purchase. 



5. I had 1,603 skins, and they had lain a long time in the salt. 



6. In the state my skins were in it was, in my opinion, impossible for 

 any one to sav to what sex they had belonged, unless in the case of old 

 "wigs" (old bulls). 



7. The person who inspected them was about 35 years of age, 5 ft. 10 

 in. in height, sandy complexion and light moustache only, his face being 

 what I would call a Scandinavian one. 



8. After he had completed his inspection and gone away, I wished to 

 ask him something about what he thought of them, and asked one of 

 the Customs officials where I would find him, and was told that his 

 office was at Liebes' store. 



9. I have been in the sealing business for the past five or six years, 

 and am 09 years of age, and am an American subject. During the 

 years I have been in the sealing business, in addition to hunting them, 

 I have purchased large quantities for shipment to the Loudou market, 

 and I consider I am a good judge of seal-skins, for I have made it a 

 study. 



10. The Inspector who conducted the examination I have referred to 

 informed me at the conclusion of said inspection that I had somewhere 

 between 40 and 50 grey pups — I cannot recall the exact number — and 

 that my skins were in perfect order. 



11. This was the only inspection to which my skins were subjected 

 in San Francisco, and they were continuously in my possession till I 

 shipped them to London, England, for sale, through Alfred Fraser, rep- 

 resentative in New York of Lampson and Co. 



12. There was only one person present at the inspection, and that 

 one was the person whom I have before described in paragraph No. 7. 



13. 1 have not been paid anything, nor have I been promised any- 

 thing, in consideration of making the foregoing statement, which I 

 have read over and have found correct. 



(Signed) A. C. Sutherland. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 6th day of December, 1892. 

 [seal.] (Signed) Lincoln Sonntag, Notary Fublio. 



