70 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Tam to request that inauiry may be made of the United States 
53 Government on this point, and that Sir H. Holland may be 
informed of the answer which Lord Salisbury desires should be 
returned to the Governor-General. 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
[Inelosure in No. 33.—Telegraphic.] 
The Marquis of Lansdowne to Sir H. Holland. 
Marcu 31, 1887. 
Owners of vessels now fitting out for this year’s trip to Behring’s Sea inquire 
whether they may depend upon being unmolested by United States cruizers when 
not near land. Please telegraph reply. 
No. 34. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. West. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, April 2, 1887. 
Str: I have to request that you will inquire of the United States 
Government whether the owners of vessels at present fitting out for 
this year’s trip to Behring’s Sea may depend upon not being molested 
by United States cruizers when not near the land. You will be good 
enough to inform me on this subject by telegraph. 
[ have further to instruct you to ascertain from the United States 
Government whether they have received the documents connected 
with the seizure of British vessels last autumn in Behring’s Sea, which 
were referred to in your despatch of the 4th February last. 
Lam, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 35. 
Sir L. West to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received April 11.) 
WASHINGTON, March 29, 1887. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to report to your Lordship that the 
United States steam-ship “Thetis” has sailed from New York, and will 
proceed round Cape Horn and up the west coast to Alaska. It is 
reported that the Secretary of the Treasury has received a letter from 
the Alaska Commercial Company, complaining that private parties are 
taking seals in the waters about Alaska, and asking for more Revenue 
cutters to be sent for their protection. The Company further ask that 
the United States Government should prohibit all killing of seals 
within the eastern half of Behring’s Sea, or from a point beginning at 
Behring’s Straits, and passing from the north-west end of St. Lawrence 
Island in a south-easterly direction to the Island of Attou, at the 
extreme westerly point of the Aleutian Archipelago. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST, 
