RECORD OF G. R. NETTLETON. 285 



December 4. No seals remain on Lagoon. 



December 11. A food drive was made from Zapadni. It was two days in reaching 

 the village. Six seals perished on the way. The drive yielded 240 skins. 



1890. 



January 22. Pour hundred seals are reported hauled up under Hiitchinson Hill. 

 Natives were sent to secure them. 



January 26. Two hundred and one seals were killed at Northeast Point. 



January 27. Natives sent in boats to Sea Lion Eock, succeeded in killing 180 

 seals. 



April 28. The first bull of the year hauled out at Tolstoi Eookery to-day. 



April 29. Three bulls hauled out at Zapadui. 



April 30. One bull is on Sea Lion Kock. 



May 6. Ten bulls are on Zapadni and 6 on Eeef Point. 



May 7. Three bulls hauled out on Lagoon. 



May 9. Eighteen bulls are on Zapadni. 



May 10. One hundred bulls are reported at Northeast Point; a large number in 

 the water. 



May 12. Six bulls are hauled out at Halfway Point. 



May 14. Fifty bachelor seals are reported hauled out on Sea Lion Eock. 



May 21. The first killing for food was made on Sea Lion Eock, 131 seals. 



June 15. Mr. Goff made an examination of the Eeef, comparing its conditions 

 with those of the same date last year. He found more bulls and a better class, i. e., 

 uniformly larger and covering more ground. The bachelors on the extreme point are 

 not as numerous as a year ago. 



June 6. The north end and middle part of Lukauin show fully as many seals in 

 sight as last year; while the western end does not make so good a showing. 



June 10. The first cow arrived on the Eeef on the 5th. The first pup was born 

 to-day. 



June 11. The first drive for the quota was made from the Eeef, yielding 574 skins. 



June 18. A drive from Middle Hill and Tolstoi yielded 274 skins. Nineteen 

 half-grown bulls were turned away. As many yearlings as seals killed, and half as 

 many 2-year-olds, were allowed to return to the water. These figures constitute a 

 fair average for the work of the season thus far; the bulls actually counted; the 

 others are a close estimate. 



June 23. At a drive from Middle Hill and Tolstoi 521 were killed. Seventy-five 

 per cent of the seals driven to the village were turned back into the. sea, 10 per cent 

 being 2-year-olds and the balance yearlings. 



June 24. Of the drive from Eeef and Zoltoi 426 seals were killed. About 65 

 per cent of the drive was turned back into the sea, about all being yearlings. 



June 26. From the drive at Southwest Bay 117 were killed; 65 per cent were 

 rejected. Of those turned away half were yearlings, one-fourth 2-year-olds, and the 

 rest old bulls. 



June 28. A drive of 1,417 seals was made from Eeef 206 were killed; 1,211 were 

 turned back. At Northeast Point 79 seals were killed out of a drive of 2,000. 



June 30. A drive from English Bay, Middle Hill, and Tolstoi yielded 209 skins; 

 83 per cent of the drive was rejected. 



