842 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



(A.) 



This is tlie paper- writing marked (A) referred to in the declaration of Olaf West- 

 erlund, made me before tliia 19th day of December, a. d. 1892. 



(Signed) K. W. Harris, Notary Publio. 



211 (19.) 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columhia, City of Vancouver. 



I, W. H. Copp, of the city of Vancouver, Province of British Colum- 

 bia, master mariner, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I was master of the sealing schooner " Vancouver Belle" for 

 and during the year of 1892. 



2. That I have carefully comj)ared the entries under the headings 

 "Date," "Number of Seals taken," "Latitude," and "Longitude," in 

 the Eeturn hereto annexed marked (A), with the entries in a diary 

 kept by me extracted from the original entries in the log of the said 

 schooner for and upon her sealing voyage in the year 1892, and say the 

 same are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a full, true, and cor- 

 rect abstract of the entries therein made referring to the matters in 

 said Keturn set out. 



3. That I have been unable to compare the said entries with the 

 original entries in the log of the said schooner, for the reason that the 

 said schooner, while upon her sealing voyage aforesaid, was seized by 

 the Kussian Government, and the said log passed out of my possession 

 along with the said schooner, and I have not since obtained possession 

 of the same. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

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

 Oaths." 



(Signed) W. H. Copp. 



Subscribed and declared by the said W. H. Copp before me, a Notary 

 Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the city of 

 Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, this 24th day of 

 December, A. d. 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) E. P. Davis, 



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



