662 
Relations with 
Canada, p. 269. 
Ibid 
Thbid. 
APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
I wish to make no charge against the Alaska Commercial Company. 
They are a commercial organization, and they follow out their true 
instincts to make all they can out of their very profitable lease. 
They are only repeating the policy of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 
which for more than 100 years deceived the British Parliament by the 
same arguments now used by the Alaska Commercial Company, until 
when, in 1858, they applied to Parliament for a renewal of their Char- 
ter. those wise and far-seeing statesmen, Roebuck, Gladstone, Lord 
Bury, and Sir E. B. Lytton, exposed the shallow sophistry of the 
pretensions of that Company and a renewal of their Charter was 
denied them. 
Although my Report on the fur-seals of Cape flattery in 1880 was 
published by the Government in the Fisheries Exhibit of the Tenth 
Census, and sneeringly criticised by Elliott, as alluded to, I have been 
unable to procure asingle copy, although I have made diligent search 
in Pee the volumes of the Tenth Census. Report. 
In like manner has Congress and the country been systematically 
kept in darkness regarding the fur-seal fisheries in Bebring’s Sea, for 
those who have had the information to impart have had an interest 
directly opposed to imparting it. 
¥ * 
It is constantly asserted in Washington that the indiscriminate 
slaughter of seals will exterminate them, and cases are cited of the 
Islands of Massafuero, Lobos, and others'on the Pacific coast, where 
the slaughter by crews of vessels from New London, Connecticut, and 
other New England ports has entirely exterminated the fur-seals at 
those islands and at Cape Horn. I assume that fur-seals can no more 
be exterminated than herring or codfish. They may be driven off 
from a rookery, but they are not exterminated; and, in proof of my 
assertion, I respectfully ask permission to file the sworn statements 
of Richard Dupuis relative to the fur-seals of Cape Horn, and of 
Edward Thomas Biggs relative to the fur-seals of the Falkland 
Islands, which I have respectively marked ‘‘ Exhibits Nos. 2 and 3.” 
The statements show that the fur-seals have not been exterminated at 
those places, but are taken in considerable numbers every season, 
and, although at one time were almost driven entirely away, are now 
returning to their former haunts. 
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APPENDIX (C). 
Recapitulation (1889). 
Vessels. Coast Catch,| Bebring’s | Total. 
12, 463 
2,318 
240 
15, 497 
3, 403 
1, 461 
27, 960 
5, 721 
1, 701 
35, 382 
20, 361 
15, 021 
Total v ae at 7 
dollars per skin, 247,674 dollars. 
