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188-4. 



January 11. A few hundred seals are on Sea Lion Rock. 



January 12. A few large seals are hauled out on the beach at the end of the 

 island. 



January 20. The seals have left Northeast Point and Sea Lion Rock. 



March 6. Orders were given to shoot or house all hogs which had become a 

 nuisance and had been visiting Zoltoi, Reef, and Nah Speel, driving the seals into the 

 water. 



April 26. The first fur seal of the season was seen to-day. 



April 30. The large seals have hauled out at Southwest Bay; two at Tolstoi, 

 and many in the water about English Bay. 



May 2. The large male seals are beginning to haul out on the rookeries. Several 

 are already on the extreme south end of the Reef rookery, and quite a large number 

 in the water. 



May 3. Two bulls are on Lukanin. 



May 11. Bulls are reported by the natives on all the rookeries. The first on 

 Warehouse Point came last night. A few bachelor seals are hauled out at Southwest 

 Bay and a few are in the water near the point of the Reef. 



May 15. "Killers" are quite numerous. 



May 21. Drives for food were made from Halfway Point and Reef; 187 killed. 

 "Killers" drove a shark (?) on shore at Halfway Point. 



June 3. A drive was made from the Reef and 318 killed. 



July 21. A drive from Middle Hall, Kitovi, Zoltoi, yielded 1,911. This killing 

 closed the season. The total number killed was 88,995, of which 85,000 were accepted 

 by the company. 1 



July 29. Eight hundred seal skins are yet to be taken on St. George to complete 

 the quota of 15,000 for that island. 



August 26. The number of large seals in the food drive to-day was unusually 

 small. In a drove of 2,000 only 57 were killed, the skins of which were accepted. 

 The state of affairs is very different from previous years and difficult to account for. 2 



November 5. Since the 3d, 2,731 pups have been killed for winter food. 



December 31. The weather is unusually mild. The seals have nearly all gone. 

 Those remaining are at Southwest Bay, Reef, and Sea Lion Rock. 



1885. 

 April 27^ The first seal seen this season is hauled out at Southwest Bay. 



RECORD KEPT BY G. R. TINGLE. 



June 3. A drive (place not stated) was made and 49 seals killed. 

 June 19. A drive from Lukanin and Halfway Point yielded 1,307 skins. The 

 natives found an albino pup; it was dead, having been bitten in the head. 



1 The securing of this quota shows that a more normal condition of the hauling grounds existed 

 in this season. One can not help noting in passing the rejection here implied of nearly 4,000 skins in 

 skins in a quota of 85,000; or at $3 a skin, a loss of $12,000. 



2 Here we begin to see the actual scarcity of bachelor seals resulting from the diminished birth 

 rate of 1880 and 1881, when the pelagic catch exceeded 15,000 as against a normal catch of 5,000 in the 

 ten years previous. 



