666 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
APPENDIX (F). 
Mr. James G. Swan's Evidence. 
Ibid., p. 286, They are never taken in motion. 
* * * * * 
16 APPENDIX (G). 
Captain Joshua Brown’s Evidence. 
Xelations with Let the Government place proper people on those islands, and estab- 
Canada, p. 346. Jish open and close months, then say that no sealers should go within 
3 leagues of these islands, for the females that nurse their young never 
go farther away {from the islands than that; there is an abundance of 
fish there for them to eat. The females go back to the islands two or 
three times every day to nurse their young. But let no fishermen go 
in there, and let there be close months, and let them have a fair and 
equal chance, and then I do not think they will ever exterminate 
those seals, because they reproduce themselves every year properly 
protected. 
Foreign Office to Sir C. Lampson and Co. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, January 2, 1891. 
GENTLEMEN: I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowl- 
edge the receipt of your letter the 50th ultimo on the subject of the 
3ehring’s Sea seal fishery and the trade in seal-skins with the United 
States. 
lam, We. 
(Signed) P. CURRIE. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received January 3.) 
{[Extract.] 
DOWNING STREET, January 2, 1891. 
Tam directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before 
the Marquis of Salisbury, a copy of a letter from the High Commis- 
sioner for Canada, and of a despatch from the Governor-General of 
Canada, on the subject of certain statements in Sir J. Pauncefote’s 
despatch of the 24th July respecting the progress of the Behring’s Sea 
negotiations. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 24.J 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT Housk, Ottawa, November 22, 1890. 
My Lorp: With reference to your Lordship’s despatch of the 4th October last, 
inclosing copy of a despatch from Sir Julian Pauncefote to the Foreign Office on the 
subject of the Behring’s Sea seal fisheries, I have the honour to forward, for your 
