SEAL LIFE ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. a 
We took up our quarters on St. Paul Island on July 16, and on the 
17th attempted to photograph the rookery at Northeast Point, but a 
dense tog prevented. Later in the day, however, we succeeded in 
photographing Ketavie and Lukannon rookeries. During the 18th, 
19th, 20th, and 21st, work was entirely interrupted by fog. The 22d 
proved clear, and permitted us to obtain plates of Reef rookery in the 
morning, and of Tolstoi and Zapadnie rookeries in the afternoon. A 
dense fog continued from the 23d to the 25th inclusive, followed by 
clear weather on the 26th, when we visited and photographed North- 
east Point rookery, the writer remaining there overnight to complete 
his observations. Polavina rookery was photographed in the after- 
noon of the 28th, and on the 29th observations were made at Tolstoi 
and Reef rookeries. 
A severe storm prevailed during the 30th, and on the following day I 
visited that part of Reef rookery lying under the cliffs for the purpose 
of ascertaining to what extent young pups may have been destroyed 
by it, but I found the damage slight. In the afternoon I visited 
Zapaduie rookery, and Mr. Miller returned on board the Albatross. 
On August 1 photographs were obtained of Lagoon rookery and of 
Reef rookery from Village Hill. The 2d and 3d were spent in making 
general observations; from the 4th to the 7th fogs and storms prevailed ; 
on the 5th visits were paid to Lukannon and Ketavie rookeries, and to 
the rookery on Sea Lion Rock. On the 9th I secured photographs of 
Northeast Point rookery from Hutchinson Hill, but the weather was 
rainy or foggy from the 10th to the 13th, permitting only of brief exami- 
nations being made of Reef and Ketavie rookeries, August 14 I visited 
Tolstoi rookery and found several hundred dead seal pups, nine-tenths 
of which had undoubtedly been killed under the cliffs during the recent 
‘storm. Their bodies were lying just along the line of debris left by 
the highest wash of the waves, and as they were mostly near the com- 
mencement of the sand beach, they had evidently been swept from the 
narrow rookery at the foot of the cliff extending out to the point. 
On August 16 I was again transferred to St. George Island, where I 
spent that and the two following days in reexamining the several rook- 
eries. They were all well covered by the spreading out of the seals 
which takes place in August, and makes the rookeries look larger than 
in July. A large proportion of the young pups were also swimming 
about the adjacent kelp beds off Little East rookery. In the afternoon 
of the 18th I rejoined the Albatross. 
CONDITION OF THE ROOKERIES, 
ST. PAUL ISLAND. 
Northeast Point rookery.—The seals along the eastern side of this 
rookery were found distributed as in 1892, but undoubtedly much more 
thinly in the immediate vicinity of the point. Along the western side 
they were hauled out a little farther back, owing perhaps to the later 
date at which the observations were made. One or two breaks in the 
beach line had closed since the preceding season, but no increase can 
be noted on accountof the thinning at the point. It is, therefore, prob- 
able that no appreciable change has taken place in the total number of 
seals on the rookery since 1892. No seals whatever from this rookery 
have been killed for several seasons. Photographed July 26 and 
August 9. 
Polavina rookery shows a decrease in seals, although the usual area 
is occupied. It will be noticed in the photographs of the main rookery 
