658 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The Committee, concurring in the above Report, recommend that your Excellency 
be moved to forward a copy hereof to the Principal Secretary of State for the Col- 
onies for submission to Her Majesty’s Government, and that a copy be also sent to 
the High Commissioner for Canada in London for his information. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) Joun J. McGEr, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
APPENDIX. 
APPENDIX (A). 
Seal Fishery of Behring’s Sea. Washington, 1890. 
[Pages 41, 42, and 43.] 
Mr. George Tingle, a Special Agent of the Treasury, gave his evidence before the 
same Committee, and he is put forward by Mr. Blaine in support of the United 
States contention. (Appendix to Mr. Blaine’s letter to Sir Julian Pauncefote, 1st 
March, p. 17.) : 
Confirming Mr. Gliddon’s opinion, as above quoted, Mr. Tingle says: 
“From Mr. Elliott’s statement I understand that there are no more seals now than 
there were in 1872. I am ata loss to know how Mr. Elliott got his information, as 
he had not been on the islands for fourteen years.” 
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. It is certain, however, this vast number of ani- 
mals, so valuable to the Government, are still on the increase. The condition of all 
the rookeries could not be better.” (Appendix to Report, Congressional Committee, 
1888, p. 359.) 
ae Report of the Alaska Commercial Company (13th 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. Doe. 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 
Special Agent of the Treasury Department, wrote from St. Paul Island, Alaska, the 
3lst July, 1888, as follows: 
“Tam 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 itis at present, Lientenant Washburn 
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 from 1870 to 1874 
on the islands comprising the Pribylov group, and he did not think that this dimin- 
ished the numbers. Lieutenunt Maynard’s Report (44th Congress, Ist Session, H. R. 
No. 43), as well as that of Mr. Bryant in 1869 (Ex. Doe. No. 32, 41st Congress, 2nd Ses- 
sion), largely supports the contention of the Canadian Government respecting 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. 
Notwithstanding the lax efforts on the part of the United States to guard or patrol 
the breeding islands, the difficulty of approaching the rongh coasts thereof, the 
prevalence of fogs, and other causes, have in a large degree prevented too destruc- 
tive or too numerons raids being made upon the rookeries. 
The Canadian Government contends that while seals in calf are taken on and off 
the coasts of British Columbia and California, and also during their migrations near 
