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Through the courtesy of the Navy Department the U. S. S. Sirins 

 transported from Seattle the general annual shipment of supplies 

 required at the Pribilof Islands and on the bureau's power schooner 

 Eider. Valuable assistance was rendered also by vessels of the 

 United States Coast Guard, w^hich maintained a patrol of waters fre- 

 quented by the fur seals and performed many services in connection 

 with the bureau's work at the islands. 



The practice of retaining and selling the Canadian and Japanese 

 Governments' shares of fur-seal skins taken at the Pribilof Islands 

 and then remitting to those Governments their respective shares of 

 the proceeds was continued. The North Pacific Sealing Convention 

 of July 7, 1911, contemplated a physical delivery of skins at the Pribi- 

 lof Islands to the Governments in question, but subsequent arrange- 

 ments provided that the United States sell all of the skins and make 

 proportionate distribution of the proceeds. The United States' share 

 of fur-seal skins, 170 in number, taken under the jurisdiction of Japan 

 in 1929 were received at St. Louis in January, 1930. 



PURCHASE AND TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES 



The U. S. S. Sirius transported the general supplies required for the 

 Pribilof Islands and for the power schooner Eider. The Sirius left 

 Seattle with the cargo on July 26 and arrived at the Pribilofs on 

 August 5. En route the vessel discharged at Dutch Harbor 17 tons 

 of supplies and 25 tons of coal for the Eider. The cargo for the 

 Pribilofs consisted of approximately 1,075 tons of general supplies, 

 1,040 tons of coal, and 700,000 feet of lumber. The vessel left the 

 islands on September 7 with the season's shipment of fur-seal and fox 

 skins, some miscellaneous freight, and a number of passengers, arriv- 

 ing at Seattle September 16. 



The work of discharging cargo and taking aboard the annual ship- 

 ment of fur-seal and fox skins was greatly hindered by heavy weather. 



Minor shipments of supplies were made from Seattle from time to 

 time. Some were taken by the Eider on its departure from Seattle 

 in March. A shipment amounting to approximately 24 tons, consist- 

 ing chiefly of perishable foodstuffs for the Pribilofs and the Eider, 

 was forwarded from Seattle on the steamship Victoria on May 14 for 

 delivery to the Eider at Akutan. Another small shipment was made 

 from Seattle on the Victoria on June 5, delivery being made to the 

 Eider at Dutch Harbor. The usual fall shipment of perishable food- 

 stuffs and miscellaneous emergency supplies for the Pribilof Islands, 

 approximately 50 tons, was forwarded to Dutch Harbor from Seattle 

 on September 13 on the Tanana. The fall shipment was forwarded 

 earlier this year on account of an accident to the Eider which made it 

 necessary to arrange for the transfer of the supplies from Dutch 

 Harbor to the Pribilofs by a U. S. Coast Guard cutter before the last 

 one left the region for the season. The transfer was effected by the 

 cutter Northland. 



POWER SCHOONER " EIDER " 



From the beginning of the year until its departure for Unalaska and 

 the Pribilof Islands on March 18, the Eider was at Lake Union Dry 

 Dock, Seattle, Wash., where a general overhauling was given the 

 engine, hull, and equipment. En route to Unalaska the vessel called 



