490 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
In 1874, Mr. Elliott, after examination, estimated the number of seals to be: 
““Onist. Pal dislan dss 2 2. saree acto See weno ences see Seeee See 8, 080, 000 
Qn St, George: island !.5 2 cccs sseccs seer <n sees opeaeh aces eee eee 163, 420 
Mota ee es sss haiersk Sb, Ue sa ddestos ac se ha ea eters eee See EE ae Cee Peete mn Gone 
exclusive of non-breeding seals, and adding those to the estimate of Mr. Elliott just 
quoted, he himself said that the total would reach 4,700,000.” 
In 1884, long after the period when Mr. McIntyre stated that the seals were 
decreasing—as he said since 1882—Mr. Wardman, when writing from the islands, 
tells us— 
“The number of seals is steadily increasing.” (‘fA Trip to Alaska,” p. 93.) 
Mr. H. A. Glidden, an Agent of the Treasury from 1882 to the 8th June, 1885, an 
authority quoted by Mr. Blaine in support of the United States contention, told the 
Congressional Committee in 1888, in replying to the question, ‘‘ What do you say 
about the increase or diminution of the number of seals on the rookeries of St. Paul 
and St. George?” 
“T did not notice any change. . . . . Icould notsee any particular difference. 
They come and have their young and go away. The period of gestation is eleven 
months, and then they come back in the spring following. ‘They are there during 
the season in countless numbers.” (Evidence before Congressional Committee, p. 27.) 
Mr. George R. Tingle, a Special Agent of the Treasury, gave his evidence before 
the same Committee, and he is put forward by Mr. Biaine in support of the United 
ntaios contention. (Appendix to Mr. Blaine’s letter to Sir Julian Pauncefote, March 
eel) 
2 ‘onfirming Mr. Glidden’s opinion, as above quoted, Mr. Tingle said: 
“From Mr. Elliott’s statement I understand that there are no more seals now than 
there were in 1872. Iam ata loss to know how Mr. Elliott got his information, as 
he had not been on the islands for fourteen years.” 
446 The same Mr. Tingle, in 1887, reported to Secretary Fairchild that: 
“He found the lines of occupancy extending beyond those of last year, and 
the cows quite as densely packed on the ground on most of the rookeries, whilst on 
two rookeries there is some falling-off. Jt is certain, however, this vast number of 
animals, so valuable to the Government, are still on the increase. The condition of 
all the rookeries could not be better.” (Appendix to Report, Congressional Commit- 
tee, 1888, p. 359.) 
In a Report of the Alaska Commercial Company (138th December, 1887) it is stated 
that Mr. George R. Tingle, the Agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
substantially confirms Mr. Elliott in his view referred to above, excepting that, upon 
a careful survey by himself in 1886, he estimated that the fur-seals upon the two 
islands had increased in number about 2,000,000 up to that time. Mr. Tingle’s esti- 
mate for 1886 is 6,537,750 (H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 31, 50th Congress, Ist Session), and in 
December the Alaska Commercial Company, in their Report, said that the seals were 
on the increase. 
The latest definite information appearing in the United States documents regard- 
ing the condition of the rookeries is contained in the Report of Mr. Tingle, who, as 
Spec ial Agent of the Treasury Department, wrote from St. Paul Island, “Alaska, the 
3ist oa “1888, as follows: 
Iam happy to be able to report that, although late landing, the breeding rook- 
eries are filled out to the lines of measurement heretofore made, and some of them 
much beyond these lines, showing conclusively that seal life is not being depleted, 
but is fully up to the estimates given in my Report of 1887.” 
From the above United States officials it is clear that, with only partial protection 
on the islands, the seals have increased in an amazing degree. These islands, con- 
taining in 1874 the largest number of seals ever found in the history of sealing at 
any place, contain to- day a more astounding number. 
When the number was less than half of what it is at present, Lientenant Wash- 
burn Maynard, of the United States navy, was instructed to make an investigation 
into the condition of the fur trade of the Territory of Alaska, and in 1874 he reported 
that 112,000 young male seals had been annually killed in each year,#xrom 1870 to 
1874, on the islands comprising the Pribylov group, and he did not think that this 
diminished the numbers. Lieutenant Maynard’s Report (44th Congress, 1st Session, 
H. R. No. 43), as well as that of Mr. Bryant in 1869 (Ex. Doc. No. 32 , 41st Congress, 
2nd Session), largely supports the contention of the Canadian Government respect- 
ing the productiveness of the seal and their habits during the breeding season. 
It is not denied that seals enter Behring’s Sea for the purpose of resorting to the 
islands to propagate their species, and because the immense herd is chiefly confined 
to the islands for this purpose during the breeding season it is that the seals have so 
constantly increased. 
