736 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
shot-guns, also two sea-otter boats. The captain said that he was from Kusoquim, 
bound to Oonalaska. His papers show that he had cleared from Kodiak on the 20th 
June, bound on a trading and coasting voyage along the coast of Alaska, and 
49 for a further excuse he said that he was short of provisions, and the wind had 
been blowing so long from the south that he must be supplied. 
I did not take any stock in what he said, and would not allow him to come on shore, 
and told him that the cutter could supply him with all the provisions he required. 
I believed him to be a seal poacher, but there was nothing on board that we could 
attach. We were obliged to let him go, for which I have been mad at myself ever 
since, and as I had men watching the Kast Rookery, the only place where he could 
land upon the island, I had no fear of his ever going on shore; but early on the 
morning of the 15th I sent extra men around the island from Garden Coye to the east- 
ward, and under the high bluffs at the east end of the island, about 2 miles from 
East Rookery, they found four dead cows and four dead pups, also three clubs, one 
of which was broken. These were made of drift wood, and two of them had a little 
flesh upon them. At this time of the year the cows and pups are scattered along the 
rocks on most all parts of the sea-shore of the island, and by chance the boat’s crew 
that landed came upon a few of these, which they killed, and the schooners, while 
beating to windward to get into an anchorage under the high cliffs, came in sight 
from the cutter, and it is my opinion that the men on shore got into their boat as soon 
as they could and went on board the schooner. 
They did not take any seal with them, and had to get out of the scrape the best 
they could, which they did to perfection. Had the schooner not been away at the 
time the natives brought the clubs into the village, I would have had them caught, 
but the schooner and cutter both being gone, I coulddo nothing but kick. If I again 
come across Captain Ohlmitz this far, I will endeavour to make it uncomfortably warm 
for him. If he had landed upon East Rookery he would have done some damage. 
It was blowing very hard at the time, and I have no doubt but he intended to anchor 
close under the cliffs, and go upon therookery at night and get all the seals he could. 
Since that time I have established a watch-house at Garden Cove, and keep two 
men there all the time. No vessels can come near the island on either side without 
~being seen. There never was a watchman at Garden Cove before. 
The seal are very scarce on this island, and in order to get enough for food for the 
natives I am obliged to kill seal whose skins will not weigh over 44 to 54 1bs., and 
these the Company will not accept, and I am salting them for Government account, 
and shall probably have some 600 or 700. They are all good skins. Please obtain 
an order from the Secretary to ship them on one of the first Government vessels going 
to San Francisco the next season. I also request that you obtain permission to pur- 
chase a new carpet for the Government House on this island, as the carpet we now 
have on the floor is nearly worn out. Also please obtain from the Department for 
this island the following seeds: 4 lbs. good turnip seed, 4 lbs. good lettuce seed, and 
4 lbs. good radish seed. I have never seen vegetables grow better in my life than 
they do here, and it would surprise you to see now what a fine bed of lettuce and 
radishes we have here now. In obtaining the seed, please get seed that has been 
grown as far north as possible. The natives of the island are a much superior race 
of people to what I expected to find, and I do not anticipate any trouble here this 
winter. 
Tam, &e. 
(Signed) A. W. LAVENDER, 
Assistant Treasury Agent. 
CHARLES J. GOFF, Esq., 
Treasury Agent, Clarksburgh, Washington, Virginia. 
50 4. Report of A. W. Lavender. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL AGENT, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
St. George Island, October 24, 1890. 
Sir: [have the honour to report to you that United States revenue-steamer “ Bear” 
returned to this island on the 22nd instant from Oonalaska unexpected to us here. 
Captain Healy told me that orders had been sent from the Department to watch the 
rookeries very close, as there had been two schooners cleared from Victoria for Beh- 
ving’s Sea, and that they were going to raid these islands. I have not seen a schooner 
around here since I last wrote you, nor doI think that there is a single schooner 
taking seals in Behring’s Sea at this writing, and unless they come within the next 
two weeks there will not be any seal upon the rookeries for them to kill. I have 
again torequest you todo your best to obtain arms and ammunition for these islands, 
and hope that you will be able to secure them, for without them the rookeries cannot 
