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Two thousand skins is a low estimate per vessel, and were it not for the interfer- 
ence of the United States cutters in Behring’s Sea, the catch would average quite 
3,000 skins per vessel. 
APPENDIX 3. 
Declaration of Carl A. Lundberg. 
City oF Victoria, Province of British Columbia, Dominion of Canada. 
I, Carl A. Lundberg, of the city of Vancouver, in the Province of British Colum- 
bia, late of the city of Yakohama, Japan, fisherman, do solemnly and sincerely declare 
as follows: 
1. In the year 1883 I was ship-keeper of the schooner “ North Star,” of Yakohama 
aforesaid. The said schooner was engaged in hunting and fishing in Okhotsk Sea 
and Kurile Islands. : 
2. In the month of September the said schooner was in the vicinity of Robin 
Bank, or Island, returning from Cape Patience. One day towards the end of said 
month of September, I, with a number of others from the said schooner, landed on 
a beach of said Robin Island. 
On the island I met the mate of the schooner “Leon,” a vessel in the employ of 
the Alaska Commercial Company as a watch vessel, about the said Robin Bank, or 
Island. 
The said mate had with him about 15 natives of the Aleutian Islands. While on 
shore we discovered a great heap of dead and rotton seals piled against the cliff at 
the back of a narrow strip of smooth beach such as seals haul up on. I examined 
the seals, and found that they had been driven into a heap, clubbed, and afterwards 
a great number had been cut and mutilated so as to destroy the skins and hasten 
decay. The said mate of the ‘‘Leon” was present, and I asked him why he had 
killed all of these thousands of seals—cows and pups. He replied, ‘“‘That is to keep 
any of these Yokohama fellows from getting anything this year.” I asked him for 
his authority for being on the island and killing the seals. He showed me a docu- 
ment signed by the Alaska Commercial Company, directing him not to allow any 
persons to land on the island except the servants of the Company. I asked him who 
gave him the paper; he replied, he could not tell. The document referred to was 
nailed to the wall of the house occupied by the mate and his men. 
364 3. Next morning I went back to the beach with thirty-three men, the crews 
; of my own vessel, and the schooner ‘‘ Helena,” which was also at the bank. 
We began at once to drag the dead seals to the water, and, after three days and 
nights hard work, we got the beach cleared. Every man was ordered to keep count 
of the number of dead seals he dragged off the beach, and when the work was done 
we found that the total number in the pile was between 9,000 and 10,000, nearly all 
cows and pups. There were thousands of seals in the water, but they would not 
pull out on the beach on account of the stench and filth. We washed the beach as 
clean as we could, and turned the gravel over as far as we were able. Shortly a 
heavy gale came on which washed the beach quite clean again, and the seals then 
began to pull out. 
And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true 
and by virtue of the Act respecting extra-judicial oaths. 
(Signed) C. A. LUNDBERG. 
Declared and affirmed at the City of Victoria, British Columbia, the 5th day of 
October, Aa. D. 1889. 
Before me, (Signed) A. L. BELYEA, 
A Notary Public by Royal Authority in and for the Province of British Columbia, 
No. 250. 
International Arbitration and Peace Association to the Marquis of 
Salisbury.—( Received December 7.) 
40 AND 41, OUTER TEMPLE, STRAND, 
London, December 6, 1889. 
My Lorp: The Committee of the International Arbitration and 
Peace Association have had again brought under their notice the very 
unsatisfactory state of affairs that has long prevailed regarding the 
seal fisheries in Behring’s Sea and the adjacent coasts, 
