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 B B.

N. T. James, marine surveyor for the Frankfort Marine Insurance Company, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is a resident of the State of California, and has been engaged in the insuring and surveying of vessels for the past twenty years in the city of San Francisco, and was familiar with the schooner James Hamilton Lewis, as also with the other vessels comprising the fishing and sealing fleets of San Francisco, and he knows and believes that the said schooner James Hamilton Lewis was not (from her construction and model and rig) a faster vessel, or as fast as the majority of the sealing and hunting vessels which sail from the harbor of San Francisco. That he is familiar with the speed of vessels, and would consider 140 miles during twenty-four hours at sea as much above the average which she could accomplish under ordinary circumstances of good weather and wind.

N. T. James.

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.