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APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



cases, cedar, both of which are sofb woods, whose durability is very 

 doubtful, especially in seas where the teredo abounds. 



The following list of schooners, as to which I made inquiry, shows 

 the date and place of building: 



Built. 



1891 



1890 

 1889 



1888 



1887 

 1886 



Schooner. 



*Aiuoko 



* Vancouver Belle .. 

 *ElizaKdwards(St.) 



*C. D. Rand 



"Beatrice 



*May Belle 



*Caiiotta G. Cox ... 



♦Labrador 



♦Thistle (St.) 



Minnie 



Sea Lion 



*Hesperus.... 



*Otto 



Aurora 



C. H. Tapper 



Venture 



*Umbrina 



*Carmolite 



Tiiiimph 



^Maggie Mao 



*Rosie Ohlsen 



*MaudS 



Place where built. 



Yokohama. 



Vancouver. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Victoria. 



Ditto. 



Vancouver. 



Ditto. 



Victoria. 



Ditto. 



Vancouver. 



Nova Scotia. 



Mayne Island, B. C. 



Nova Scotia. 



Vancouver. 



Nova Scotia. 



Vancouver. 



Nova Scotia. 



Ditto. 



Oregon, TJ. S. A. 



Nova Scotia. 



Built, 



188C 



1885 



1884 



1883 



1882 

 1877 



1875 

 1872 

 1869 

 1868 

 1863 

 (') 



Schooner. 



♦Walter A. Earle 



♦Annie E. Paint 



Viva 



E. B.Marvin 



♦Geneva 



Sap;ihire 



♦Oscar and Hattie. . . 



Teresa 



Ocean Belle 



Annie C. Moore .... 



Penelope 



G. P. Say ward 



Walter L. Kich 



♦Laura 



Beatrice (Shanghae) 



Mary Taylor 



Wanderer..... 



Winifred 



Ariel 



Mary Ellen 



Katlierine and 

 Ethel (itonerican). 



Place where built. 



San Francisco. 



Nova Scotia. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



Ditto. 



San Salvador. 



Nova Scotia. 



Newfoundland. 



Yokohama. 



Victoria. 



Maine, U. S. A. 



San .Juan. 



Yokohama. 



TJtsalady. 



San Juan. 



Wliatcom, TJ. S. 



Nova Scotia. 



San Francisco. 



Not known. 



'Not known. 



266 So far as I could ascertain, the schooners marked with an 



asterisk include all t1io.se which were either quite new or newly 

 fitted out for the sealing industry. 



As regards the average cost per ton, it is very difficult to form an 

 accurate estimate, the value of the schooners differing greatly, some 

 costing in their original construction as low as 53 dollars per ton, others 

 as much as 145 dollars per ton. 



I think, however, that the average would be about 103 dollars per 

 ton for hull, spars, sails, and rigging, and exclusive of outfit, &c. I do 

 not mean they would be worth these values to sell, for many are built 

 specially for the purpose of the trade, with accommodation for twenty 

 or tliirty men, which practically takes up the whole space below, and 

 they are all fitted in a way which would be out of place in an ordinary 

 fishing or trading schooner, but I do not think for sealing purposes 

 vessels equally well built and found could be obtained for a less price. 



The men employed on a schooner are paid, some by fixed wages, some 

 by commission, or " lay," on the skins taken, and some by both. Thus 

 the cook and seamen are generally jiaid wages only (and those high 

 wages, from 30 dollars to 50 dollars a-month besides board, &c.,); the 

 hunters, whether white or Indian, are paid by lay only, the amount of 

 which varies from 1 dol. 50 c. to 3 dol. 50 c. a skin, or even more, the 

 average being about 3 dollars. Hunters are paid according to their real 

 orsupposedetficiency, and there is considerable competition amongst the 

 different owners to get the best men. In point of lay, there Is no great 

 dilTcronce between the rates paid to Indians and to white men, and a 

 good hunter may easilj^ make from 1,000 dollars to 1,500 dollars in a 

 season. The Indians used to be less particular than the Whites about 

 their victualling, but now all, whether White or Indians, expect every- 

 thing to be of I he best, and, to judge from the bills which I have seen, 

 they can enforce their wishes in this respect. 



The captain and mate are paid mainly by wages, but have also often, 

 in addition, a small lay on the skins taken. A captain often gets 30 



