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life, of the information and opportunities for observation which we were 
afforded by the Russian authorities on the Commander Islands and in 
Kamschatka. 
6. We inclose herewith, for your Lordship’s information, copies of 
the letters which we addressed to the Administrator of the Commander 
Islands and the Commandant at Petropaulowski, expressing our sense 
of the valuable facilities they have afforded us. 
We have, &c. 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL. 
GEORGE M. DAwson. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 140.] 
The Behring’s Sea Commissioners to the Administrator of the Commander Islands. 
“DANUBE,” AT BEHRING’S ISLAND, September 2, 1891. 
Str: Having been appointed Her Britannic Majesty’s Commissioner to hold an 
inquiry into the conditions of seal life in Behring’s Sea and other parts of the North 
Pacific Ocean, with a view to the arbitration pending on the subject between the 
Governments of the United States and Great Britain, we considered it to be of much 
importance to the success of our mission that we should obtain full information con- 
cerning the facts of seal life and the methods of killing adopted on the Commander 
Islands. 
92 We received a confirmatory telegram from the Secretary of State for Foreign 
Affairs in England, stating that the Russian Government had been good 
enough to authorize us to visit their seal fisheries, and that the Governor-General at 
the Amoor had been requested to afford us every facility in the prosecution of our 
inquiries. 
Not having time to communicate with the Governor-General at the Amoor, we ven- 
tured to come to Behring’s Island, and we have had the good fortune to meet with 
you, and now would beg to tender this expression of our best thanks for the courtesy 
with which you have received us, and for the valuable and full information which 
your long experience and accurate knowledge of all connected with sealing enabled 
you to afford us. 
We have, &c¢, 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL. 
GEORGE M. Dawson. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 140.] 
The Behring’s Sea Commissioners to Mr. Homyakoff. 
‘‘ DANUBE,” AT PETROPAULOWSKI, September 9, 1891, 
Sir: We have the honour, before we leave Petropaulowski, to convey to you our 
thanks for the courtesy with which you have received us during our visit to your 
command, and for the information which you have so freely placed at our disposal. 
Having been appointed Her Britannic Majesty’s Commissioners to investigate the 
conditious of seal life in the North Pacific Ocean, with a view to the preservation 
of the fur-seal, we deemed it specially advisable to obtain full information concern 
ing the Russian seal islands. 
We received a telegraphic despatch from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 
in England stating that the Russian Government had been good enough to authorize 
us to visit their seal fisheries, and that the Governor-General at the Amoor had been 
requested to afford us every facility in the prosecution of our inquiries. 
As the limited time at our disposal did not admit of our communicating with the 
Governor-General at the Amoor, we would beg you to be good enough to inform his 
Excellency of our visit here, and to convey to him our high appreciation of the 
manner in which you have received us. 
We have, &c. 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL. 
GEORGE M. Dawson. 
