EXHIBIT V.

Report of the Commander of the Screw Schooner Aleout to the Commander of the Port of Vladivostok, dated October 20, 1891, No. 489.

[Resolutions sent to the military governor. Signed, K. A. Ermolaiew, October 23.]

In fulfillment of the order of October of the present year, I make report that, according to the log book of the schooner under my command, being on the morning of July 21 off the southern extremity of the island of Medny, I sighted the sailing vessel James Hamilton Lewis. At that moment the sails were distinctly visible, and the schooner was bearing toward the southern extremity of the island. To better elucidate the circumstances, I transmit herewith an extract from the ship’s log and a chart, upon which is indicated the point at which the schooner commanded by me was situated when the sailing vessel was sighted (point “A”). Judging from the clearness with which her sails could be seen, the utmost limit of distance between the two vessels could not have exceeded 6 miles; that is to say, the James Hamilton Lewis was not more than 5 miles off the southern extremity of the Medny Island; that is, at point “C.”

At this moment she neared the shore until she sighted the Aleout, when she veered quickly and, augmenting sails, hastily fled beyond the limit of territorial waters.

The schooner was seized at point “B,” which was 13 miles from the point “A” and 11 miles from Medny Island.

(Signed)
Captain of Frigate Brandt.