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 A A.

San Francisco, March 26, 1900.

Andrew P. Lorentzen, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California; that he is now and has been an owner of coastwise sailing vessels, and that he is acquainted with the majority of vessels entering and going out of the harbor of San Francisco, and is particularly conversant with their sailing capabilities; and that he knew the schooner James Hamilton Lewis prior to the seizure of said vessel by the Russian war vessel Aleut on the 2d day of August, 1891; that said vessel was built for the sealing trade, and had the ordinary speed of vessels of her class; that he knows of his own knowledge that the average rate of sailing speed of the schooner James Hamilton Lewis ranged from 5 to 10 knots per hour, and under the most favorable circumstances it was but seldom that said vessel attained the maximum rate of speed named.

A. P. Lorentzen.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of March, 1900.

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Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California.