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were taken before the Judge, no effort was made to restrain us or in any way deprive 
us of liberty. The crew of the ‘‘Dolphin” lived on board her all the time of their 
stay at Sitka, and when leaving to return to Victoria by the United States steam- 
ship ‘“‘Richard Rush” took from the ‘‘ Dolphin” sufficient provisions and supplies for 
the trip. 
12. That hereto annexed, marked ‘‘(A),” is a statement of the value of the steam- 
schooner “Dolphin” at the time of her said seizure; also of the articles, and groups 
of articles, comprising her outfit on and for said voyage, all of which, excepting only 
what had been consumed in the prosecution of the voyage, were on board at seizure, 
as well as considerable extra supplies and stores not mentioned in Exhibit (A); also 
of the amount of premiums paid for insurance on the hull, cargo, and outfit of the 
“Dolphin” for and during said voyage; also of the amount of wages paid to the 
crew and hunters of the ‘‘Dolphin” on said voyage up to the time of her seizure, 
and of the expenses of the master and mate in returning to Victoria from Sitka; and 
also of the number and value of the seal-skins taken from the ‘ Dolphin” when 
seized. 
13. The value placed on the said steam-schooner ‘ Dolphin” in Exhibit (A), 
namely, 12,000 dollars, is based upon her original cost, the condition which she was in 
when seized, and the value of vessels of her class and equipment at Victoria aforesaid. 
The first cost of the ‘‘ Dolphin” was over 16,000 dollars. At the time of her seizure 
she was in first-class wrder and condition, having been specially repaired and refitted 
for the voyage she then was on. Her insurance value for 1887 was 12,500 dollars, 
and she was insured on and during said voyage for 2,0001. The said value, namely, 
12,000 dollars, isa fair and reasonable value for the ‘‘ Dolphin” when seized. 
14. The prices charged for the articles, and groups of articles, in Exhibit (A), 
comprising the outfit of the ‘‘ Dolphin,” are the actual cost prices of the said 
articles, and groups of articles, at the time of their purchase at Victoria for the pur- 
poses of said voyage. ‘The price per skin charged in Exhibit (A) for the seal-skins 
on board the * Dolphin” when seized, namely 5 dol. 50 c. per skin, was the market 
price at Victoria aforesaid at the close of the sealing season of 1887, and at which 
time the said seal-skins would haye, had not such seizure taken place, been put upon 
the Victoria market. 
15. That hereto annexed, marked ‘‘(C),” is a statement of the legal expenses 
incurred at Sitka and elsewhere, and also of personal expenses arising out of the 
seizure of the ‘‘ Dolphin,” the arrest of the master and mate, and the claims relating 
thereto. 
16. That Exhibit (D), hereto annexed, is a statement of the estimated loss and 
damage to the owner of the Dolphin” by reason of her seizure and detention dur- 
ing A. D. 1887. The loss for 1887 is based upon a catch of 4,500 seals at the current 
price per seal-skin at Victoria at the close of the season of 1887. The ‘‘ Dolphin,” 
on her voyage, carried thirteen canoes and two sealing-boats, and a crew of thirty- 
one sailors and hunters. The estimated catch of 4,500 seals by the ‘‘ Dolphin” for 
said season is calculated on an average catch of 300 seals per boat and canoe for a 
full season; and I verily believe that said average catch per boat and per canoe for 
said season is a fair and reasonable estimate for a full season’s work. During the 
time the Dolphin” was in Behring’s Sea, before capture, the weather was very 
unfavourable for seal-hunting, being both foggy and windy, and the catch for that 
period is no standard by which to judge of the ordinary and average catch of the 
season. There are frequently, all through the season, days at a time when no seals 
at all are taken, and, on the contrary, I have known a single boat to take from thirty 
to fifty seals per day in fine weather. 
17. After the close of the sealing season, and during the succeeding months of 
October, November, December, and January, had the “Dolphin” been in her owner’s 
possession, she would have been engaged in the coasting trade between the various 
ports and freighting places on the coasts of British Columbia. During said months 
the fair and reasonable earnings of the ‘‘Dolphin,” after deducting from the gross 
amount thereof the cost of wages and running expenses, would be at least 500 dollars 
per month. 
18. The estimated loss for the season of 1888 is based upon the said average catch 
of 4,500 seal-skins at the rate of 54 dollars per skin, after deducting therefrom the 
cost of outfit, wages, and other necessary expenses of a hunting and fishing voy-~ 
age based on the ‘‘ Dolphin’s” voyage of A. D.1887. In order to fit up the ‘ Dolphin” 
for such voyage in 1888, it is necessary that she be in her owner’s possession on or 
before the Ist day of February of that year. If notat Victoria aforesaid about 
158 that date, it will be impossible to put her in order and condition to leave on 
such a voyage at the usual time, namely, about the Ist March. During the 
summer months there is little or no coasting trade for a vessel of the class and equip- 
ment of the ‘‘Dolphin,” and unless she can be sent out on a regular full season of 
hunting and fishing, her owner will practically lose the profits of the season. And I 
verily believe that 7,000 dollars is a fair and reasonable estimate of the earnings of 
the “Dolphin” on such a full season’s hunting and fishing voyage. 
