844 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



213 Notes made on Voyages between Yolcohama and Vancouver hy the 

 Commanders of Steam-ships of ^^Umpress^' Line, Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. 



Mr. W. 0. Yan Home, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 kindly instructed the Captains of the mail steam-ships of the " Empress" 

 Line, running between Vancouver and Japan, to report any fur-seals 

 observed during their voyages. The reports so far received are quoted 

 below : 



Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 



Montreal, April 11, 1892. 



Dear Sir: Captain Marshall, of the "Empress of India," reports 

 that, on his last voyage out (13th to 17th January), "although only 15 

 miles off some of the islands (Aleutians), no seals were seen, but one 

 was seen on the Japan coast between Kirkasan and Inaboye." 

 This may interest Mr. Dawson. 

 Yours truly, 



(Signed) A. Piers. 



W. C. Van Horne, Esq., President. 



Yokohama, May 12, 1892. 



Dear Sir: I wish to report that on the 10th instant, from 4.20 A. m. 

 to 5.20 A. M., off the coast of Japan in latitude 38° 20' north, longitude 

 143° 20' east, we passed through a continuous shoal of seals playing 

 about. There were a few large ones, but most of them were very small. 

 I can conscientiously say that we saw over 200 before tlie wash from the 

 ship frightened them away. The morning was very gloomy and calm, 

 the sea calm, with a peculiar smell off' it; small clumps of sea-weed, 

 and several birds hovering about; evidently plenty of fish about. The 

 sea temperature at the time was 66 degrees. 

 Yours respectfully, 



(Signed) George A. Lee, Commander. 



A. Piers, Esq., 



Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal. 



Extract from a Letter from Captain Marshall. 



At Sea, May 22, 1892. 



This passage (19th and 20th May) we have again seen numerous seals 

 between latitudes 38° and 46° north, and longitudes 146° and 169° 

 east; at times they were present in goodly numbers, but generally only 

 a few were seen at a time. They appeared to be travelling in a north- 

 westerly direction, but this is, of course, very hard to determine, going 

 at our speed; these seals this passage have not been seen playing 

 about, but they did not look like sleeping; the seals we passed on this 

 voyage outwards were particularly lively, and were jumping clean out 

 of the water. 



Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 



Montreal, May 13, 1892. 



Dear Sir: Captain Marshall, of the "Empress of India," reports 

 that, on the 18th April, on his outward voyage No. 6, he saw "any 



