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Sea by the United States authorities, were built and done for me, and under my per- 
sonal direction, and were each owned and managed by me for some time after 
144 + their completion, and are now managed by me for their respective owner and 
owners. ‘The schooners ‘‘Carolena,” ‘ Favorite,” ‘‘ Alfred Adams,” ‘‘ Ada,” 
and “Onward,” all also seized in Behring’s Sea by the United States authorities, 
were each and all well known to me from personal knowledge. From my interest 
in the Behring’s Sea sealing business, I kept myself well posted on the matter and 
manner of the condition and equipment of the said vessels, and most of the facts 
stated in the declarations of claim in the case of each of these vessels came under 
my personal observation. The said vessels, excepting the ‘ Thornton,” ‘‘Onward,” 
and ‘‘Carolena,” which are at Ounalaska, are at Sitka, in the United States Ter- 
ritory of Alaska. 
3. To bring these vessels from Sitka to Victoria, a distance of about 900 miles, 
will involve a cost of at least 1,600 dollars to purchase the necessary materials and 
take them to Sitka, and to convey the necessary men to Sitka and pay their wages. 
From leaving Victoria until arrival back with any one of said vessels would take 
about two months, or perhaps a few days less in the summer months, and a few days 
more in the winter months. 
4, A full hunting and sealing season begins as early as the 1st January and up till 
the 1st March, and extends thence until the end of September. 
This season is divided into two parts, the coast season and the Behring’s Sea sea- 
son. The coast season terminates about the end of June, but vessels intending to 
go to Behring’s Sea generally leave the coast fishing during the month of May, seal- 
ing as they go northward, and reaching Behring’s Sea the end of June or beginning 
of July. The best period of the sealing season in Behring’s Sea varies in different 
years according to the prevailing weather from about the 20th July to the end of 
September, after which date, though seals are plentiful, stress of weather compels 
sealing-vessels to leave the sea and go south. 
5. On sealing voyages the hunters are paid in lieu of wages so much per seal skin 
on each skin they capture, receiving from 2 to 2} dollars per skin. The masters are 
generally paid partly in wages and partly in the same manner as the hunters. 
The only vessel in the Behring’s Sea in either of the seasons of 1886 or 1887 that 
made a reasonably full catch of seals was the schooner “Mary Ellen,” of Victoria, 
which, in the season of 1886, took 4,256 seal-skins. On and for said season the 
‘Mary Ellen” carried fifteen hunters and five boats, an average catch per boat of 
851 seal-skins, the five boats being about equal to cight or nine canoes. The ‘‘ Mary 
Ellen” was the only vessel in Behring’s Sea in either 1886 or 1887 which, so far as I 
know, or am able after inquiry to learn, remained the full season in said sea on and 
about the best sealing grounds without being disturbed by the United S:ates author- 
ities. And I believe that the said steam-schoonerts ‘‘Grace Dolphin” and “ Anna 
Beck,” and the said schooner ‘‘ W. P. Sayward,” which were the best equipped ves- 
sels for sealing that had ever entered the Behring’s Sea, would have, if not seized or 
disturbed by the United States authorities, made an equally large catch in said years 
1886 and 1887, there being no reason why they should not do so. 
6. The masters of the steam-schooner ‘‘ Thornton” and schooner ‘*‘ Onward,” and 
the mate of the schooner *‘ Carolena,” after their arrival at Sitka as prisoners in the 
latter part of August, entered into an agreement with one Clarke, a counsellor-at- 
law at Sitka, to defend their vessels and themselves on their pending trial at Sitka 
before the United States District Court, and the charge of 500 dollars for legal 
expenses at Sitka in the case of each of the said vessels is to cover the claim of said 
Clarke. 
7. The wages of the crew of each of the said seized vessels, except the ‘Alfred 
Adams” and ‘‘Onward,” are based on two months’ service expiring on the day of 
seizure in each case. In the ‘‘ Adams” and ‘‘ Onward” cases, the crews were paid 
up to the time of their arrival at Victoria. 
And I, James Douglas 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 
and Province of Ontario, this 9th day of December, a. D. 1887, and certified under 
my official seal. 
(Signed) J. M. BALDERSON, 
Notary Public for Ontario. 
