APPEISTDIX I. 



STATISTICS PERTINENT TO THE PRECEDING- DISCUSSION. 



TABLE OF DAILY KILLINGS OF FUR SEALS FOR ALL PURPOSES ON THE PRIBILOF 

 ISLANDS FOR THE YEARS 187. r >, 1880, 1880, AND 18S9 TO 1897, INCLUSIVE. 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



The complete table of daily killings for the period 1870 to 1889, prepared by Col. 

 Joseph Murray, having been published in Senate Doc. No. 137, Seal Life, Part 1, 1890, 

 and recently republished in " Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Eesources of 

 Alaska," House Doc. No. 92, 1898, it has not seemed necessary to repeat it in full here. 

 From this table we have taken the record for the years 1875, 1880, 1886, and 1889. 

 Tlie first of these years is intended to illustrate the normal driving in the period of 

 equilibrium during the years 1871 to 1880. The record of the year 1880 is given to 

 show that no radical change had yet occurred. With it is contrasted the record of 

 1886, when, the killable seals became scarce through the decline of the breeding herd, 

 and it was necessary to multiply the drives and hauling grounds driven from to 

 secure the necessary quota of skius. The record of 1889 is introduced to form a 

 contrast to that of 1890. The driving in neither year shows normal conditions. The 

 record for 1890 and following is a continuation of Colonel Murray's set of tables, 

 taken from the official records of the islands. In the names of the rookeries we have 

 used the spelling adopted in the present report. 



ST. I' \ 1 I itl. IM>. 1875. 



1 Seals taken in this and subsequent years prior to June 1, when the regular sealing season began, were for natives' 

 food. Such of the skins as were of suitable grade were accepted and became a part of the regular quota. 



2 Where, as in this initial drive of the season, two or more names are joined, it means that adjacent or convenient 

 hauling grounds were united in a single drive. Thus Zoltoi is always driven with Reef, because the route of the longer 

 drive crosses Zoltoi hauling ground. In like manner Tolstoi, Middle Hill, and English Bay are so situated as to be 

 conveniently driven together. 



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