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chants Rybinskoi and Tyrin sent out the Shitrika Sv loam to the 

 Near Islands, the vessel returning in August 1752 with 700 sea 

 otters and 700 blue foxes." 



On page 118, he refers to Attu Island when he says, "After 

 living on this island in peace with the natives for over a year, 

 Tolstykh departed with 5,360 sea otters and 1,190 blue foxes, 

 and reached Kamchatka in the autumn of 1758." 



Again, this historian reports (p. 155), "The Vladimir, owned 

 by Krassilnikof and commanded by Soposhnikof, sailed in 1766, 

 and returned from the Near Islands with 1,400 sea otters, 2,000 

 fur seals, and 1,050 blue foxes." 



Dall (1870, p. 499) stated that blue foxes had been intro- 







Figure 43. — Blue fox. 



