24 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
8 for Behring’s Sea was 7,000 dollars, and I make this solemn declaration, con- 
scientiously believing the same to be true, by virtue of the Act passed in the 
37th year of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled ‘‘An Act for the Suppression of Voluntary 
and Extra-judicial Oaths.” 
(Signed) Wo. MunsIE. 
Taken and declared before me at Victoria, this 23rd August, 1886. 
(Signed) M. W. Tyrwuirr Drakk, J. P. 
I, Thomas McLaedy, of Victoria, British Columbia, cook, do solemnly and sin- 
cerely declare that I was engaged as cook on board the British schooner ‘ Carolina,” 
and I was on board when the United States steamer ‘‘ Corwin” seized her, During 
the whole time the said schooner was sealing she never sighted land once. Aftershe 
was seized the ‘‘ Corwin” took her in tow about 6 o’clock in the evening, and about 
3 o’clock in the morning the English schooner ‘‘ Onward,” of the tonnage of 35.20 
tons, was also seized and taken in tow to Ounalaska. Her crew were lett on board 
and not removed to San Francisco; she had seal-skins on board. And 1 make this 
solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, by virtue of the 
Act passed in the 37th year of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled ‘An Act for the Sup- 
pression of Voluntary and Extra-judicial Oaths.” 
(Signed) T. McLArpy. 
Taken and declared before me this 25rd August, 1886, at Victoria, British Columbia. 
(Signed) M. W. TyRwuHitr Drake, J. P. 
I, Edward Shields, of Sooke District, Vancouver Island, a hunter, engaged on 
board the British schooner ‘‘ Carolina,” of 31.90 registered tonnage, do solemnly and 
sincerely declare that I left Victoria on board the aforesaid schooner on the 20th 
May, 1886, bound on a voyage to Behring’s Sea for the purpose of sealing. The 
schooner was fitted out for this purpose. She had eleven hands on board, including 
the master, by name James Ogilvie. We sailed to Behring’s Sea and commenced 
sealing on the 15th June, and at that time we were about 380 miles from land, and 
we continued cruizing about for seals, and up to the time the United States vessel 
“Corwin” seized us we had 686 seals. During the whole time we were cruizing 
about we were in the open sea, out of sight of any land. The seals we obtained 
were chiefly females. At the time the “Corwin” seized us on the Ist August we 
were out of sight of land and in latitude 55° 50’ north, longitude 168° 53’ west, as I 
was informed and verily beheve. ‘There were other vessels, both American and Eng- 
lish, cruizing about in the same neighbourhood. We never killed a seal in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Aleutian Islands. I was away in the boats when the ‘ Corwin” 
seized the vessel, and when I came back I found the ‘‘Carolina” in tow of the ‘‘Cor- 
win.” The captain of the “Corwin,” Abbey by name, took away all the fire-arms, 
consisting of rifles and shot-guns, ten in all, and I was taken to Ounalaska, and 
from there I was taken toSan Francisco by the steamer ‘‘ St. Paul,” and there turned 
adrift. The “Carolina” was left at Ounalaska with the seals and outfit, and I make 
this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, by virtue of 
the Act passed in the 37th year of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled ‘‘An Act for the 
Suppression of Voluntary and Extra-judicial Oaths.” 
(Signed) EDWARD SHIELDS. 
Taken and declared before me at Victoria, this 23rd day of August, 1886, in due 
form of law. 
(Signed) M. W. TYRWHITT DRAKE, J. P. 
9 I, John Dallas, of Victoria, British Columbia, seaman, do solemnly and sin- 
cerely declare that I was engaged about the end of May 1886 as a seaman on 
board the schooner “Thornton,” of 22.30 registered tonnage, registered in the 
Dominion of Canada as a British vessel. I was engaged sealing on the west coast 
of Vancouver Island, and when the seals got scarce the “Thornton” left [? Clayo- 
quot] Vanconver Island, for Behring’s Sea about beginning of June, and three days 
after passing Unmark Pass we killed our first seal, being then about 250 miles from 
land. We were engaged sealing in the open sea until the 1st August. We had a 
little over 400 skins on board, when the United States steamer ‘‘ Corwin” seized our 
