894 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
During the voyage, which lasted till the end of August, they spoke no vessel or 
Revenue-cutter, nor had any communication with any one. They returned to Vic- 
toria after a successful voyage. 
The following vessels were engaged on the west coast as sealers in the years 1882-83, 
but which did not enter Behring’s Sea. All were fairly successful: 
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In the year 1884 the schooner “‘ Mary Ellen,” of Victoria, British Columbia, Daniel 
McLean master, fitted out at San Francisco with a crew of sixteen men to hunt seals 
along the west coast, and entered Behring’s Sea about the 15th June and left about 
the end of August of the same year. The voyage was satisfactory to owners and 
crew. They prosecuted their legitimate and peaceful voyage to the high seas 
without any interference from any one. 
In the same year the schooners ‘‘ Favorite,” ‘‘Anna Beck,” ‘‘ Alfred Adams,” ‘‘ Dol- 
phin,” ‘‘Grace,” “Onward,” “Thornton,” ‘“ W. P. Sayward,” and “ Black Diamond,” 
were all engaged in the sealing industry iu the North Pacific. 
In the year 1885—considered a prosperous one for sealers—the ‘‘ Mary Ellen” and 
“Favorite,” of Victoria, having entered Bebring’s Sea during June and leaving about 
the end of August, and the other schooners, as per list attached hereto, hunted in 
the North Pacific, but not entering Behring’s Sea. 
359 A number of vessels were added to the fleet in the following year (1886), and 
the enterprising firm, Carne and Munsie, brought around Cape Horn the 
schooner “Pathfinder.” This latter led to some immigration from eastern provinces 
of the hardy class of seamen so well adapted to the sealing industry. All the ves- 
sels clearing from Victoria, British Columbia, entered Behring’s Sea with the excep- 
tion of the schooners ‘‘ Active” and “ Rustler,” lost off Vancouver’s Island. 
The same year (1886) is also remarkable for the seizures of the ‘‘Carolina,” ‘‘ On- 
ward,” and ‘‘Thornton,” the attending circumstances of which is now a matter of 
history. These vessels, fitted out at Victoria for sealing in the waters of the North 
Pacific Ocean and Behring’s Sea, and at the time of seizure (1st and 2nd August, 
1886), were about 70 miles from the nearest land. 
The United States Revenue-cutter took them to Ounalaska. The crews of the 
“Carolina” and ‘“‘ Thornton,” with the exception of the captain and one man detained 
on board, were sent to San Francisco, nearly 1,000 miles from home, and turned 
adrift to beg their bread, and by appealing to the charity of the humane to find 
their way back to their homes on Vancouver’s Island. The crew of the ‘‘ Onward” 
was kept at Ounalaska. The master and mate of the ‘‘Thornton ” were brought to 
trial before a Judge named Dawson, in the United States District Court at Sitka; 
and if half the stories that are told are true as to the manner in which Courts are 
conducted in Alaska, we cannot be surprised at the verdict. The trial was a farce 
on justice, where international law or comity had no consideration. ‘‘The Britisher 
must suffer,” and he was found guilty accordingly. The master of the ‘‘ Thornton ” 
was sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment and a fine of 500 dollars; the mate to 
thirty days’ imprisonment and a fine of 300 dollars. The master and mates of the 
““Onward,” as also the officers of the “Carolina,” were likewise mulcted of similar 
penalties. The master of the latter vessel, one James Ogilvie, an old man and a 
pioneer of British Columbia, well thought of by owners and crews sailing from his 
port, of Victoria, after suffering harsh and inhuman treatment at the hands of the 
servants of the mighty Republic which blatantly proclaims its love for the right, 
was suffered to wander into wood, where he died from want and exposure. 
The other masters and mates, after remaining in prison for several months, were 
released by order of the Governor of Alaska upon his being besought by the inhab- 
itants of Sitka in the interests of humanity. They were turned out of confinement 
literally destitute, without food or shelter, and compelled to find their way back as 
best they might to their homes 1,500 miles distant, reached only by a long and costly 
voyage, or by the friendly help of the Indian and a canoe over a tempestuous wintry 
ocean. 
The story of poor Ogilvie, the taunts of an unscrupulous Judge, characterizing 
them as pirates and robbers, the subsequent imprisonment in a foul Alaskan dungeon 
(fit only for a savage Aleut), will long be told as a travesty onthe humane acts of a 
friendly Government. 
