APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 389 
The Minister submits the appended declarations and statements in support of the 
views expressed in the Minute above referred to: they are as follows: 
Appendix No. 1. Statement prepared by practical seal-hunters. 
Appendix No. 2. Statement prepared by A. R. Milne, Esq., giving a history of the 
sealing industry as pursued by British subjects in the Behrine’s 5 Sea. 
Appendix No. 3. Solemn declaration of Carl A. Lundburg on the slaughter of about 
10,000 seals at Robin Island by the crew of the schooner “ Leon,” aw ratch-vessel of 
the Alaska Commercial Company. 
' The Minister states that it will be seen that the first Appendix, in which the dif- 
ferent hunters describe their operations in detail, fully bears out the position taken 
in the Minute of Council of the 14th July, 1888, that the destructive nature of the 
modes of killing seals by spears and fire-arms has been greatly exaggerated by the 
United States authorities, a very small percentage of loss occurring. Also that the 
operations of the Canadian sealers in the Behring’s Sea are of necessity during the 
months proposed by the Honourable Mr. Bayard as a close season. 
The Minister desires to invite particular attention to the fact that, while female 
seals with pup are taken to some extent along the coasts approaching the Behring’s 
Sea, such instances are of rare occurrence in the sea itself. 
Appendix No. 2 treats altogether of the history and extent of the Canadian sealing 
interest in the North Pacific Ocean and Behring’s Sea, and concludes by showing that, 
as the seals travel singly and in pairs, not in droves or numbers as has been claimed, 
there is no opportunity for the indiscriminate slaughter alleged. The percentage 
of seals wounded or killed and not secured is placed at 6 per cent. 
The Minister of Marine and Fisheries is of opinion that the action described in 
Appendix No. 3, of the servants of the Alaska Commercial Company at Robin Island, 
under lease to them from Russia, in wantonly and maliciously slaughtering on their 
rookeries 10,000 seals at one time, principally cows and pups, and | destroying their 
skins for the avowed purpose of insuring the failure of other sealers, is but another 
argument against securing a monopoly of the seal-fishing interest in the North 
Pacitic Ocean for the Alaska Commercial Company, and while this one act has been 
more destructive than the combined operations of the other sealers in the Behring’s 
Sea, it renders altogether erroneous the interference of the United States authorities 
on the plea of protection with the legitimate pursuits of sealers in the open sea. 
The Committee concurring in the above Report recommend that your Excellency 
be moved to forward a copy y hereof to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, and that a copy be also forwarded to the High Commissioner for 
Canada for his information. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s apyroval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. McGEr, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
355 - APPENDIX 1. 
STATEMENTS OF PRACTICAL HUNTERS. 
James Wilson. 
I was carpenter on board the sealing-schooner ‘‘ Triumph” on her voyage this year, 
One of the hunters was drowned just before entering Behring’s Sea, and I took his 
place. I was out hunting seals about a week, but the weather was bad, and I got 
only twenty-three seals I had had no experience. I used a breech-loading shot- 
gun, and shot seals at a range of from 10 to 15 yards. Ilost one seal through the 
carelessness of the boat hands running the boat over the seal, which sank directly 
under the boat. 
Most of seals lost by hunters are shot at long ranges with the rifle. One hunter 
on the “Triumph” this year got over sixty seals and only lost one. [ never saw a 
cow seal with her young beside her. Out of the tw enty-three I got, five or six were 
cows carrying their young. 
(Signed) JAMES WILSON. 
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, August 9, 1889. 
William Fewings. 
I have been three years hunting seals on the Pacific Coast and in Behring’s Sea. In 
1887 I was on board the sealing-schooner ‘‘Favourite,” in 1888 on the ‘‘ Viva,” and 
in 1889 on board the “Triumph.” In each year the vessel I was on entered the 
Behring’s Sea early in July, and left the sea the latter part of August or early in 
