. Fur seal arbitration. Proceedings of the Tribunal of arbitration, convened at Paris, under the treaty between the United States ... and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering sea . less numerous. I re-turned to Washington, D. C, in November, 1801), and was placed incharge of work during the following winter and spring pertaining toAlaska and the S(!aleries, in the office of the Secretary of the June, 1800, I accepted
. Fur seal arbitration. Proceedings of the Tribunal of arbitration, convened at Paris, under the treaty between the United States ... and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering sea . less numerous. I re-turned to Washington, D. C, in November, 1801), and was placed incharge of work during the following winter and spring pertaining toAlaska and the S(!aleries, in the office of the Secretary of the June, 1800, I accepted the position of general agent of the AlaskaCommercial Comi>any, and in the following August, when the lease ofthe right to take seals was <xecuted, I became superintendent of sealfisheries for the lessees, and remained in this position until the springof 1800. In this capacity I visited tlie Tribilof Islands, and remainedthere every sealing season except those of 1883, 1881, and 1885, andD ? ? <r ikir ^^^ there also during the winter of 1871-72. In kill-ririiigani i mg. ^^^^ geals for their skins, tlie methods employed by theEussian Fur Company, prior to American occupation, were closely fal-lowed, except that many innovations and improvements were institutedand adopted after the first year of the lease. The work was chiefly. « ^,sitf I EELATING TO PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 49 (lone by the natives, each gang of workmen being headed, as underRussian custom, by a native chief. All thoroughly understood thework, having been bred to it from boyhood. Gieat care was alwaysexercised in approaching the sealing grounds to disturb them as littleas possible. On some occasions a considerable number of bulls, nearlylarge enougli for rookery service, and rarely a barren cow, were un-avoidably gathered up from the beach and started inland with theherd. The greater part of these, at first opportunity, were segregatedfrom the drove and sent back to the water. The drove was frequentlyallowed t
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