EXHIBIT III.
Extract from the Journal kept Aboard the Second-Class Cruiser Zabiaka during her Cruise for the Protection of the Commander Islands in 1892.
Name and nationality of vessel: United States of America, C. H. White.
Cargo: Twenty seal skins, salt, powder, shot, arms, various implements for the taking of seals. Provisions and a variety of merchandise for commerce by means of barter.
Tonnage: Eighty-four.
Name of captain: L. M. Furman.
Circumstances of the case: On the 3d (15th) July, 1892, at 10.30 p.m., in 54° 30’ latitude north and 167° 15’ longitude east, while sailing in the direction southeast 68, we sighted at a distance of 2 miles a sailing vessel without distinctive lights following a course to the west of the southern extremity of the island of Medny. A blank shot was fired from the cruiser, and on approaching the schooner was enjoined by verbal order to lay to; this she did. Two officers and 11 sailors were sent aboard. On inspection it was discovered that the schooner contained 15 seal skins and 5 seals newly killed, after which a towline was tendered and she was towed to the village of Nicolsk. There was no resistance on the part of the captain from the moment of his arrest.
Number of crew: Fifteen.
Decision: The schooner and the cargo are confiscated and the crew will be sent to America on the brig Majestic.
The present extract is in conformity with the original of the log book among the papers of the acting major-general of marine, 1895, No. 30.
Governor of Chancery of the Ministry of Marine.
S. Stebline Kamensky,
[l. s.] Deputy of the Jurisconsulate.