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APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 161 
{Inclosure 3 in No. 90.] 
Declaration of James Douglas Warren. 
Crry or Orrawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. 
I, James Douglas Warren, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Colum- 
bia of the Dominion of Canada, master mariner and ship-owner, do solemnly and 
sincerely declare as follows: 
142 1. Lam the duly authorized agent of Charles Spring, merchant, of Victoria 
aforesaid, the owner of the hereinafter mentioned schooner “ Favorite.” 
2. That the schooner ‘‘Favorite” herein referred to is a British vessel of 80 tons, 
registered at the port of Victoria aforesaid, and was so registered at the time of the 
- occurrence hereinafter set out, namely, on the Ist and 2nd days of August, A. D. 1886. 
3. ‘That towards the end of the month of May A. b. 1886, after having been duly 
cleared at the port of Victoria aforesaid, for that purpose, the said schooner ‘‘Favor- 
ite” sailed on and for a full season’s hunting and fishing in the North Pacific Ocean 
and Bebhring’s Sea. 
4, That on and for said voyage the crew of the said ‘‘ Favorite” consisted of Alex- 
ander McLean, of Victoria aforesaid, master, a mate, and twenty-three sailors and 
hunters, and completely equipped and provisioned for a full season of hunting and 
fishing in said waters. 
5. 1 am informed by the said master of the ‘‘ Favorite,” and several of the crew of 
the ‘‘Favorite,” and do verily believe, that on the night of the Ist August, or 
early morning of the 2nd August, A. D. 1886, the said ‘‘ Favorite,” while in the Beh- 
ring’s Sea, not far from where the schooner ‘‘ Onward” was seized on the said morning 
of the 2nd August, 1886, and while lawfully pursuing the objects of said voyage, 
was hailed by United States steam-ship ‘‘ Corwin,” then having in tow the seized 
vessels ** Thornton” and ‘‘Carolena.” After the usual inquiries as to the name of 
the vessel, the Commander or officer then in charge of the said ‘‘Corwin” ordered 
the ‘‘ Favorite” to cease sealing and leave Behring’s Sea forthwith, otherwise she 
would be seized, or words to that effect. The master of the “ Favorite,” not wish- 
ing to risk seizure, and fearing that if he remained in the said sea his vessel and 
cargo would be so seized as threatened by the Commander of the ‘‘ Corwin,” and for no 
other reason or reasons whatever, at once made all sail and left the said sealing 
grounds, thereby losing the remainder of the sealing season. 
6. That by reason of so being forced to cease sealing and leave Behring’s Sea at 
about the beginning of the best period of the sealing season, the ‘‘ Favorite” lost at 
least 1,000 seal-skins, and her total catch for the season was reduced by that much. 
7. That on said voyage the “Favorite” carried twenty hunters and ten canoes. 
The schooner ‘‘Mary Ellen,” of Victoria aforesaid, on a similar voyage the same sea- 
son, with fifteen hunters and five sealing-boats, not seeing or hearing of the said 
seizures, and remaining in the sea till or about the close of the sealing season, caught 
4,256 seal-skins. The actual catch of the ‘ Favorite” for said season was only 3,325, 
though she had one-third more hunters than the said ‘Mary Ellen,” and equally as 
good, if not better, chances of obtaining as large a catch; and I verily believe that 
the sum of the actual catch of the ‘ Favorite.” together with the 1,000 herein 
claimed, making a total of 4,325 fer the season of 1886, is a fair and reasonable esti- 
mate for the catch of the ‘‘Favcrite” that year, had she not been interfered with as 
above set out. 
&. That the market price per seal-skin at Victoria at the close of the season of 1886 
was 7 dollars, and the amount claimed as the value of 1,000 skins lost to the owner 
of the ‘‘ Favorite” by reason of her so leaving the Behring’s Sea is 7,000 dollars. 
And I, James Dougias Warren aforesaid, make this solemn declaration, conscien- 
tiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the ‘‘ Act respecting Extra- 
judicial Oaths.” 
(Signed) J.D. WARREN. 
Declared and affirmed before me at the city of Ottawa, in the County of Carleton, 
in the Province of Ontario, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1887, and certified under 
my official seal. 
(Signed) D. O’CoNNOR, 
Notary Public for Ontario. 
[Inclosure 4 in No. 90.] 
The Marquis of Lansdowne to Sir H. Holland, 
GOVERNMENT HousgE, Ottawa, January 5, 1888. 
Str: With reference to previous correspondence, I have the honour to forward 
herewith a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council of Canada, embodying 
a Report of my Minister of Marine and Fisheries, submitting detailed statements of 
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