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great sand beach known as "North Shore," to the tip of the point itself. It occupies 

 for the most part beaches of coarse bowlders, with occasional ontcroppings of harems 

 on the flat ground above. The line of harems is frequently broken by short stretches 

 of sand beach, which are used by the bachelors as runways to reach their hauling 

 grounds. On the seaward slope of Hutchinson Hill, which forms the highest part of 

 the peninsula, the rookery becomes greatly widened and closely massed. Late in the 

 season harems were even found at the summit of the hill. 



From this point to the end of the rookery the harems scatter along the bowlder 

 beach in a narrow band. About midway to the end is a small sea-lion rookery. At 

 the eastern angle of Hutchinson Hill and on the sand beach behind Cross Hill are the 

 most important hauling grounds of the rookery, though at the present time, owing to 

 the numerous breaks in the lines of breeding seals, small pods of bachelors are to be 

 found at a large number of other places. 



2. Morjovi (of the walrus). The line of division between this and the preceding 

 rookery is a purely arbitrary one. At the point there is a considerable break in the 

 line of harems and behind is a small hauling ground. The harems resume and follow 

 along the bowlder beach as before for a short distance. Then a break occurs, with a 

 runway for the bachelors and another sea-lion rookery. Beyond this is the principal 

 portion of the rookery. It consists of a large body of harems closely massed and lying 

 back on the flat at the angle of the sand beach at Walrus Bight. Behind and to the 

 west of this mass is the great hauling ground of Morjovi rookery. Beyond the sand 

 beach scattering groups of harems occur on the sides of a long, narrow, tongue of land 

 jutting out to.the eastward, called Sea Lion Neck. Another sand beach intervenes, and 

 the rookery ends in a considerable mass of harems grouped about a rocky point nearly 

 opposite Webster Lake, on the eastern side-of the peninsula. An unimportant hauling 

 ground lies at the extreme end of the rookery. 



Vostochni and Morjovi combined furnish the greatest continuous fur-seal rookery 

 on the two islands. Along their 3 miles of coa>t line are upward of 100,000 fur seals 

 of all classes, about one-fourth of the total number on the Pribilof Islands. From 

 the summit of Hutchiuson Hill a bird's eye view of the two rookeries can be had, and 

 the sight is a most impressive one. A greater number of fur seals (or for that matter 

 any other animals) is to be seen here than for any other point in the world. 



3. Polovina (halfway). This rookery, as its name indicates, is located halfway 

 between Northeast Point and the village. The main part of the rookery lies massed 

 upon the beach and the flat above the cliffs that rise from the low reef of Polovina 

 Point and shade down with a gentle slope to the great sand beach which stretches 

 away 2 miles or more to Stony Point. At the angle of the sand beach the bachelors 

 make their way to the hauling ground in the rear of the massed portion of the rookery. 



a competent Russian scholar, Mr. Alexis V. Babine, librarian of the University of Indiana. Much 

 confusion in the records has arisen through the cm-rent use of a Russian and English name for the 

 same place, as for example, Zapadni and Southwest Bay, Polovina and Halfway Point. Wo have in 

 each case tried to select the most suitable name for the purpose, and it is to be hoped that in the 

 future agents and others concerned will conform to the usage hero adopted. We have given a separate 

 name to each of the three parts of what has been generally known as Zapadni. The great rookery 

 lying about the shores of Northeast Point has been divided for convenience at the tip of the point. 

 It has been thought best, because of the importance it has obtained through the frequent observations 

 made upon it during this investigation, to designate as Ardigueu rookery, a small detached breeding 

 area on Reef peninsula. 



