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arrange them, they present a photograph of the entire disposition of 

 107,000 fur seals slain upon the seal islands during one whole year. 



Table showing the number slain, the time of so doing, the character, and the disposition made 

 of the fur seal on the Pribilof group for one year ending July 20, 1881. 



ft Generally a few skins left behind every sea.sou. 



6 Two-year-old males and a few yearlings, princi- 

 pally, 



c Two and 3 year old m.iles generally. 



d Two-year-old males chiefly. 



cTwo and 3 year old males principally. 



/Pups killed by express permission of the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury. 



g Very fine skins ; remaining latest on the island. 



h Very fine skins ; first arrivals, 2 and 3 year 



old males. 

 i Very tine skins : 2 and 3 year old males chiefly. 

 j A few skins always left behind— not properly 



cured. 

 k Two and 3 year old males usually. 

 I Two and 3 year old males ; tine slvins. 

 m Two and 3 year old males ; first arrivals of the 



new sealing year. 



Explanatory comments upon the above table, — It will be at 

 once noticed that, in the result of this last season's work on the Pribilof 

 Islands, as illustrated so clearly above, the Alaska Commercial Com- 

 l)any has taken its full annual legal quota of 100,000 fur-seal skins there- 

 from. I call attention to it, because it is the first season in which the 

 company has done so; it has never heretofore permitted more than 

 00,800, in round numbers, to be taken and charged to its account, 

 preferiing to always be a little within the mark, on account of the 

 exceeding difficulty of reconciling the enumeration of the two sets of 



