488 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
From 1874 to 1878 Mr. F. J. Morgan, Attorney for the Alaska Company, was on the 
islands during the years 1868, 1869, and from 1874 to 1878. He speaks of several 
444 raids upon the islands in his time, and he says the whole question is one or 
more cruizers to protect the rookeries on the islands. (H. R. Ex. Doce. No. 3883, 
50th Congress, pp. 58, 71, 109.) 
In 1875 the evidence of Darins Lyman contains the following information. (Report, 
Committee Ways and Means, House Report No. 623, 44th Congress, 1st Session.) 
Answering Mr. Burchand as to what he knew about the seizure of the “San Diego,” 
Mr. Lyman replied: 
“There was a seizure made of the ‘San Diego,’ a schooner, near St. Paul Island, 
on the 27th July last (1875), on board of which were 1,660 fur-seal skins. The 
‘San Diego’ was sent down to California, and arrived there in August.” 
On p. 73 of the same Report, Mr. Elliott, in answer to Mr. Chapin, says that the 
skins taken from the ‘‘San Diego” were from Otter Island, one of the leased group. 
In 1880 Mr. McIntyre reported the estimated annual slaughter of 5,000 pregnant 
females on the British Columbia coast. 
From Reports of Special Agent Ottis and Captain Bailey respecting the people of 
Alaska and their condition (Senate Ex. Doc. No. 132, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, 
vol. iv, p. 4), Captain Bailey says: 
“‘During April and May all the coast Indians, from the mouth of the Straits of 
Fuca to the north end of Prince of Wales Island, find profitable employment in tak~ 
ing fur-seals which seem to be making the passage along the coast to the north, being 
probably a portion of the vast number that finally congregate at the Seal Island later 
in the season. Iam informed by the Indians that most of the seals taken along this 
coast are females, and their skins find a market at the various Hudson Bay posts.” 
On p. 34 of the same Report, in a list of the vessels boarded, he gives the United 
States schooner ‘‘ Loleta,” Dexter master, seized at the Seal Islands by Special Agent 
Ottis. 
In a Report by Special Commissioner Ivan Petroff in the year 1880, he says: 
“CAs these seals pass up and down the coast as far as the Straits of Fuca and the 
mouth of Columbia River, quite a number of them are secured by hunters, who 
shoot or spear them as they find them asleep at sea. Also small vessels are fitted 
out in San Francisco, which regularly cruize in these waters for the purpose alone 
of shooting sleeping seal.” (H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 40, 46th Congress, 3rd Session, vol. 
XVlii, p. 65.) 
At p. 61 of the same Report this officer speaks of the natives securing 1,200 to 1,400 
young fur-seals in transitu through Oonalga Pass. 
Special Agent D. B. Taylor, in 1881, states that the Company was powerless to 
protect the islands, but that if a harbour was built and a steam-launch stationed at each 
island they could be protected. He states that vessels go to the islands and kill 10,000 to 
15,000 a-year, and that 100 vessels have been prowling about these islands for twenty years. 
(H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 3883, 50th Congress, p. 58.) 
Mr. Treasury Agent H. A. Glidden, who was on the islands from 1882 to 1885, 
shows that the trouble is at the islands. The hunters go there on moonlight nights. 
He stated that he took possession of a vessel while the crew were on shore killing 
seals. The Government, he goes on to say, did not Keep vessels there in his time, 
and he recommended that a revenue-cutter should be kept there to guard the islands. 
(H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 8883, 50th Congress, p. 28.) 
Prior to the decision of the United States to arrest vessels outside the 3-mile limit 
in Behring’s Sea experience had shown that the police force at the islands could not 
protect them from raids. ‘This is illustrated in a letter from the Secretary of the 
Treasury, Mr. W. McCulloch, dated the 24th February, 1885, wherein he recommends 
that 25,000 dollars be obtained for the protection of seals and the enforcement of the 
laws: 
“The seal fisheries,” he states, ‘‘yield annually to the Government a revenue of 
about 300,000 dollars. The islands on which the seals are taken are protected from 
incursions of marauding vessels alone through the eruizing of the revenue-cutters. 
Last year the officers of the ‘Corwin’ seized a schooner engaged in taking seals 
unlawfully. Without the use of cutters the fur-seal industry has no protection.” 
The letter closes by asking for 25,060 dollars ‘‘in the Estimates for next year.” 
(HL. R. Ex. Doc. No. 252, 48th Congress, 2nd Session, vol. xxix.) 
September 1, 1884, the Hamburgh schooner ‘‘Adéle” was seized for violation of sec- 
tion 1956, Revised Statutes, United States. 
In 1884 Captain McLean, master of the schooner ‘‘ Mary Ellen,” was in Behring’s 
Sea from the 8th July to the 22nd August. He took 2,007 seals, and was not inter- 
fered with. (See his declaration under Act for the Suppression of Extra-judicial 
and Voluntary Oaths. ) 
Mr. George Wardman, an officer of the United States Government, was at the Seal 
Islands May 1885. He was also there in 1879, and, in addition to his evidence before 
the Congressional Committee, he has reported to his Government, and has written 
a book upon Alaska and Behring’s Sea, ‘‘ Wardman’s Trip to Alaska,” published in 
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