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Mr. McGuire. Was that the day you wrote the letter to him? 



Mr. Clarke. At night I wrote that letter. The letter states the 

 fact that I was confirming a verbal offer made in the morning and 

 was offering to recount the work we had done that day if he would 

 join us at another time. 



Mr. McGuire. And when he did not reply to the letter what did 

 you do ? 



Mr. Clark. I went on with my work independently and then 

 went and accompanied him in his work of counting on Northeast 

 Point and Polovina, which of course was my next work also, and 

 we worked together on that, but not in cooperation at all, each en- 

 tirely independent. He did not give me the results of his count 

 at the end of the day. So we did not cooperate. 



Mr. McGuire. Did each make his own figures with respect to the 

 count ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire. And did you have any conversation at all ? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; we had some conversation. 



Mr. McGuire. What about? 



Mr. Clark. Well, there has been a point of difference between Mr. 

 Elliott and myself about his surveys of 1872-1874. I hunted the 

 fur-seal rookeries from top to bottom trying to find monuments 

 which he mentions in his monograph as having been fixed for future 

 observers to measure the herd by. I could not find them. He had a 

 copy of his 1890 report and a map, and was referring to it at certain 

 points as "at station A." I asked him where station A was; as to 

 what rocks or what designations determined station A. He in- 

 formed em, and it came to me like a shock out of a clear sky, that 

 his monuments were fixed on his maps so they could not be covered 

 over by the sand or overgrown by weeds, or anything like that. In 

 other words, he took his map and when he came to a point of the 

 ground which seemed to him to fit station A, that was station A. 



Mr. McGuire. But there were no monuments indicated there? 



Mr. Clark. No; no monuments. 



Mr. McGuire. Did you have any other conversation with respect 

 to the counting ? 



Mr. Clark. Well, at the first bunch of seals we came to Mr. 

 Elliott asked Mr. Gallagher to make a count of it. Of course, Mr. 

 Whitney made a count and I made a count and Mr. Elliott was 

 making his own count. Then he began to dictate a note to Mr. 

 Gallagher in which he said ' ' 40 bulls, 750 to 800 cows." Mr. Gallagher 

 was counting and did not pay any attention to him. He repeated it 

 two or three times. When Mr. Gallagher gave attention the word 

 "forty" seemed to cause him to pause, and I asked Mr. Gallagher 

 how many he had counted. He said 18. That was what I counted 

 and that is what Mr. Whitney counted. Then I protested and 

 asked for a recount. He redictated his note "30 to 40 bulls, 750 to 

 800 cows," adding: "Throw in a few for good measure. Don't give 

 the seals a black eye. They have been treated badly enough." 



Mr. Elliott. "Don't underestimate them all the time." Didn't I 

 say that ? 



Mr. McGuire. So you, Gallagher, and the other man agreed there 

 were 18 bulls, but Mr. EUiott had a different figure? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; and I find he has noted in the end as 38. 



