870 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Declared by the above named Henry Moxon, at No. 27, St. Mary 

 Axe. iu the City of London, this 30th day of November, 1892. 

 Before me: 



(Signed) Henry B. Priest, 



A Commissioner for Oath^. 



(Signed) C. Eussell. 



Declared by the above-named Charles liussell, at the Foreign Office, 

 London, this oOth day of November, 1892. 

 Before me: 



(Signed) Henry B. Priest, 



A Commissioner for Oaths. 



Deposition of Mr. Henry Moxon. 



Mr. Henry Moxon, being duly sworn, doth depose and say: 



That he is 51 years of age, and a subject of Her Britannic Majesty. 

 Tliat he is a member of the firm of Culverwell, Brooks, and Co., which 

 has been established upwards of seventy years in business as brokers 

 in hides, furs, and skins of various kinds, and is still engaged in the 

 transaction of same business. 



That deponent has been engaged in that business personally thirty- 

 two years, and during the whole of that period has been in the habit of 

 dealing in skins of the fur-seals as broker. That by reason of that fact, 

 he has a general knowledge of the history of the business and char- 

 acter of the skins coming to market. 



That for many years last past it is a fact that skins of the fur-seal 

 coming to the London market have been described under the following- 

 main heads: 



Firstly. What is known as the Alaska catch, which deponent under- 

 stands are the skins of seals caught on the Pribyloff Islands in the 

 Behring Sea. 



The Copper Island skins, as deponent understands, are the skins of 

 seals killed upon the Eussian islands. 



What are called the north-west catch are the skins of seals killed, for 

 the most part in the open Northern Pacific, including the Behring Sea. 



That there are also a small number of skins coming from southern 

 waters which are described as Lobos Island skins, Shetland Island 

 skins. Cape of Good Hope, and Australian skins. That, however, the 

 l)rincipal sources of supply are the first three classes above mentioned. 



That the skins of these three several classes are distinguished from 

 each other in the trade, are of difl'erent values, and command different 

 prices in the market. 



That deponent, by reason of his personal handling of the skins and 

 knowledge of the business, would be able to distinguish the skins of the 

 several catches from each other, and de]ionent says that the skins of the 

 Copper Island catch are distinctly of a different character frona the 

 skins of the Alaska and north-west catches, which last two mentioned 

 are of the same general character, but maybe again distinguished from 

 each other by reason of the fact that the north-west skins are pierced 

 with marks of the spear or shot holes, and are also prepared with less 

 care than the Alaska skins by reason of the fact, as deponent under- 

 stands, of their being flayed and cured on vessels instead of, as in the 

 case of the Alaska skins, being flayed and cured on the islands, where 



