660 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
So also on the African coast the seal remains until the young can take care of them- 
selves. (Jbid., p. 416.) 
The bulk of the seals are confined to the islands until ice surrounds them. (H.R. 
Ex. Doe. No. 45, 44th Congress, Ist Session, p. 2.) 
The seals never leave their places, seldom sleep, and never eat anything from May 
to August, when they take to the water, but, it is believed, take no food until their 
final departure in November. (H.H. McIntyre, H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 36, 41st Congress, 
2nd Session, vol. v.) Mr. Elliott says ‘‘ Perhaps she feeds” (p. 180 of his Report on 
Alaska). (1874, H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 83, 44th Congress.) 
The bulls while on the island prevent the mothers taking to the water. (‘‘Marine 
Mamunals,” by Captain Shannon, United States Revenue Marine, 1874, p. 152.) 
From the 10th to the 25th July the rookeries are fuller than at any other time during 
the season, as the pups have all been born, and all the bulls, cows, and pups remain 
within their limits. (H.R. Ex. Doc. No. 43, 44th Congress, Ist Session, p. 3.) 
It has been shown that when in the rookeries mothers were destroyed, the young 
were found dead, &c., but Professor Elliott, in reference to the Pribylov Islands, 
says: 
y With the exception of those animals which have received weunds in combat, no 
sick or dying seals are seen upon the islands. 
71 “Out of the great numbers—thousands upon thousands—of seals that must 
die every year irom old age alone, not one have I ever seen here. They evi- 
dently give up their lives at sea.” (His Report on Alaska, 1874, H. R. Ex. Doc. 
No. 83, 44th Congress, p. 150.) 
APPENDIX (B). 
Extract from Letter from Captain Solomon Jacobs, from on board the Schooner ‘‘ Mollie 
Adams,” Port Townsend, Washington, May 6, 1889. 
Relations with As I intend to sail to-day on a voyage north for fishing and sealing, 
Canada, p-314- J shall not be able to see you regarding the fisheries of the North 
Pacific Ocean, Behring’s Sea, and Alaskan waters, but will refer you 
to James G. Swan, Esq., of Port Townsend, who has given more atten- 
tion to obtaining information about these fisheries, both for his own 
satisfaction and for the United States Fish Commission, with whom 
he has corresponded, and acted ever since it was first formed, than 
any man I have seen on the Pacific coast, and you can rely entirely 
upon the information he may give you. 
I will also refer you to Mr. Joshua Brown, of Salem, Massachusetts, 
owner of schooner ‘‘ Henry Dennis,” who is now here; also to Captain 
Lavender, of schooner ‘‘Henry Dennis,” who can give information 
regarding the fur-seals at Cape Horn, as he has recently arrived from 
there. 
* * * * *® 
James G. Swan. 
Thid., p. 265. Behring’s Sea must be declared free and open to all our citizens 
except the adjacent waters to the Pribylov Islands, which should not 
exceed in limit the distance from the shores of those islands of 1 
marine league, inside of which limit the seals should be preserved 
during the months of breeding, as belonging to the rookeries owned 
by the United States, but outside of that limit the waters should be 
free to all of our citizens. 
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Extract from Report of Board of Trade of Port Townsend. 
Ibid. We do not believe that the lease of the ‘‘ Pribylov Islands and adja- 
cent waters” ever was meant or intended to mean the whole waters of 
Behring’s Sea, but that the limit of 1 marine league from the shore is 
the recognized limit, outside of which the waters are known to the 
civilized world as the high seas, where our citizens should be encour- 
aged to pursue their avocations of fishing and hunting. 
It isshown by the Reports of Government officials in the publications 
of the Tenth Census, that the destruction of fish life by seals, sea-lions, 
and other animals whose sole food is fish, is very largely in excess of 
the amount of fish taken by the whole of the fisheries of the United 
States, and to protect these ravenous animals is to cause the destruc- 
