Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, Whaling and Sealing Claims Against Russia, On Account of Arrest and Seizure of the American Vessels “Cape Horn Pigeon,” “James Hamilton Lewis,” “C. H. White,” and “Kate and Anna,” Appendix I

EXHIBIT C C.

[Translation.]

[undated]

Report of Vice-Admiral Wevel von Kruger, director of the hydrographic department, for the year 1875, page 91, lines 9 to 21 inclusive:

Short hydrographic apercu of the cruise of the schooner Vostok in the Sea of Okhotsk in 1875. The screw propeller schooner Vostok left June 4, 1875, from Vladivostok for the purpose of cruising along the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk to notify foreign vessels of our regulations concerning that fishery. The cruise of this schooner was to guarantee the fisheries of our whaling ships from the vast gulfs of the Sea of Okhotsk with the engagement not to fish within 3 miles distance from our shores. At the same time with the schooner Vostok the clipper Haidamax left Vladivostok on the same mission along the eastern coast of Kamtchatka and the Bering Sea.

To all to whom these presents shall come greeting:

I certify that the document hereto annexed is a true copy of a translation in French prepared by the sworn translator at the district court of St. Petersburg.

In testimony whereof I, Herbert H. D. Peirce, first secretary of the embassy of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the embassy of the United States to be affixed.

Done at St. Petersburg this 23d day of November, A. D. 1900.

[embassy seal.]

Herbert H. D. Peirce.