APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 307 
In the next season the catch was valued at 177,000 dollars and the following vessels 
were engaged in this pursuit: 
Vessels. Tonnage. Sailors. | Hunters. 
-| = = 
(GHA) pha ocingcop sade os Co Boo one OSE ensuoorecsemEEcSeueEo sas Seeettete 80 5 36 
WOW - 2 oan Soe an mate ie wm i= we ww ww ie win lh = = 80 5 36 
Sfmt) G+ eos = oseee cone Seenoa cos eprecosnrSs SucdoeouenoSobeoonS 50 4 32 
W. P. Sayward.--.-------------------------+----+----+--+----+----- 75 4 32 
TRENWOINIIG), 52 So 5elsc bee cetoond sono o Rca ea OA OCnOn GD eE poScpecsecoBoore 80 5 32 
Winnie IMM enlnodéabecenssdonedcobeosces osc as cang=ee-ensapacesuS5ur } 65 5 36 
Titi@voned es boews doen Sone adhd oboe soemotarosericed paoBe Sopp cOUCH EES 55 4 28 
(Omi iat eosse sSastesdeeu Coens dogs pc po enGuenencle 45 5eGade pease nods 35 4 32 
THAD Mini NG Le eopoaetoDoncehcceASeaoeuoenac bebDeE se Pee rise eee 80 4 32 
\iiiiiieet aac Goes eabos copop nee o Ck co tee EOnGuds oven a cuburaoaocs 15 2 12 
PAGTITY UW ESG Capa eyelet eis iota stare ta ae ols Taw ee oie nln fo) oh te Slo vetesete| sels orerele orate 50 4 32 
MOM bO Me eae ae ee ee ate eco cia swe a ES Stadac Sey late nye eres Se Ser ele 35 4 28 
PAE eOAUA Cam Seeecesecteec <sineicieicite Sie i> oicnlela\selnin)siciae'a ie (n/a lntee 5 eia(ml= 75 | 4 32 
775 | 54 | 400 
| | 
Employing 200 canoes. 
277 And in 1883 the following vessels from British Columbia pursued this indus- 
try: 
Vessels. Tonnage. | Sailors. Hunters. 
Mio IE ISB NORM los Soogee denecccebcaseSasonedSebdGoccEmisacnesomseorse 75 4 32 
TIE OPC ood aves SSE oa Seep poss OUobScoO sen seEepoSOOee en meas ee ae 80 5 32 
Wenmy 1oilkein. co csosossis ssecesseors=nse ooSsodoeseose ssecossossesces 65 5 36 
SE SSE EE ER Soa ne Se Sons eer erate Se Ree ee ches ata eta 55 4 28 
O@inwaande-eseae ara sao ae eI ee as ein eierereis ai cis sislsic sia ete oerere 35 4 32 
BAe ke Diamon Geers a nosertn mame ese ce tees sonicinre om a cucetenae cee ne 80 4 32 
SV PIT R OC pears ners Sects See SE an wae oo ctaiene cIoneftveie ate eis /ee Delete see cote 15 2 12 
MH OMNtOMe tere ce ae cae eek eoeracenlc Soars icisteiae Sares ec esiee Jen-soeek ees 35 4 28 
PANTIE G PACES eats m joys ete ciaie re entered atante esaietatsicra latate= nine sie Siesiogels Sota 75 4 32 
PACT APIS OC Kiser eraictercne ieee aie oreteteinictoriele nicte Sintele cieisincin w iene is eiessiztecens 50 4 32 
565 40 296 
Employing 148 canoes. 
Apparently and in the absence of more definite information at this moment ayail- 
able in the continual pursuit of these seals, it was after this that fur-seals were 
systematically sought in the Behring’s Sea, as well as in the North Pacific Ocean by 
British sealers, for it is found that in 1884 Daniel and Alexander McLean, both Brit- 
ish subjects, took the American schooner ‘‘San Diego” to Behring’s Sea, and that 
they were successful in the seal fishery. On their return they purchased the British 
schooner ‘‘ Mary Ellen,” 63 tons, and chartered the schooner ‘‘ Favorite,” 80 tons, and 
with white crew, white hunters, and Indians cleared from Victoria for Behring’s Sea 
in 1885, where they met with repeated success, returning to Victoria before 1886 and 
clearing in 1886 again for the North Pacific Ocean and Behring’s Sea. 
The Minister further observes that attention is drawn in the letter from the For- 
eign Office, now under consideration, to the statement of Mr. Bayard in a letter 
addressed to Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington on the 12th April, 1887, in which 
the following passage occurs: 
“The Laws of the United States regulating the killing of fur-seals have been in 
force for upwards of seventeen years, and, prior to the seizure of last summer, but a 
single infraction is known to have oceurred and that was promptly punished.” 
In this connection it is important to note that the Governor of Alaska in his 
Report, bearing date the Ist October, 1886, and again in 1887, regarded the capture 
of one American and three British schooners apparently as the first overt act on the 
part of the United States Government to assert the claim for exclusive jurisdiction 
over the waters of Behring’s Sea north of the Aleutian Islands. 
Extracts from these two Reports, hereto appended, indicate as well that, in the 
opinion of the Governor, an indiscriminate slaughter of seals had been previously 
carried on in these waters. 
In the voluminous correspondence touching the acquisition and Government of 
Alaska by the United States published in the Executive documents of Congress from 
1868 down to the time of the seizures in question, the Minister, after a careful exam- 
ination, has been unable to find, in the various instructions given from time to time 
to Commanders of the Revenue Service, or of ships of war of the United States 
