INDEX. 



511 



Sealiug — Contimied. o^A 



Protests against restriction and prohibition of 15, 259 



Seasons of, beginnings 248 



Sealing fleet, catch of: 



American -° ' 



Victoria ^86 



Seals : 



Act of July 1, 1870, restricting killing of 32 



Arrival of, on rookeries 314 



Catch by marauders 1^6 



Characteristics of 53 



Commercial oxteiniiuation of, near at hand 451 



Dead, count of 297,460,479,480,481 



Decrease of 29,276,424 



Deficiency in certain classes, causes of 36 



Departure of, from islands 59 



Destruction of 205 



Diminution of, by pelagic fishing - - 74, 234, 273, 295, 297, 319, 460 



Diminution of, on rookeries 235 



Excess of male life "l^Q 



Food of ^^ 



Fur of 57 



Government management not responsible for decrease oi 319 



Habits of 4, 40, 54, 56, 65 



Home of 59 



Killable age of 29 



Killing, indiscriminate 3 



Large proportion killed at sea lost 274 



Mode of taking and killing 19, 58 



Number accepted by lessees 248 



Niimber taken at sea 450 



Number taken by Alaska Commercial Company 261, 262, 365-407 



Number taken l)y pelagic sealers 461 



Number taken for all purposes 365-407, 449 



Number taken for all purposes by Alaska Commercial Company 365-407 



Number taken on islands (1870-1889) - 262 



Paris regulations do not protect 161 



Pelagic sealing cause of diminution of 74, 234, 273, 295, 297, 319, 460 



Preservation of meat of 322, 359 



Question of increase or decrease in herds 120 



Rapid diminution of 232 



Request to take specimens 241 



Rule governing taking of 64 



Size of 5a 



Specimens taken 'l'^6 



System of legal protection admirable 129 



Time of arrival on islands 5 



Weight of 55, 57 



Young, death of, great, when absent from Islands 66 



Season, closed, proposition for, absurd 274 



Season, stagey, duration of 143 



Seasons, sealing, beginnings of 248 



Sexes, difterence in number of 362 



Sierra (marauder) - 188 



Situation, geographical, of islands 54 



Size of harems 133 



Shipping receipts 33,34,47,52,61,82,95,98,112,116,123, 



139, 150, 156, 166, 169, 175, 190, 206, 214, 225, 258, 286, 349, 364, 442, 471, 488 



Skins : 



Fox, arrangement for taking 335 



Market for, depression in 164 



Principal market for 19 



Pup, articles manufactured from, sold by natives 155 



Pup, not commercially valuable 128 



Receipts and invoices of, from customs returns 151 



Sea otter, prices - 8,12,453 



Stagey, description 35 



Tax on 173 



Use of, for clothing, limited - 129 



Smithsonian Institution, collection of specimens for 232 



