ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



445 



From this table behold that — 



(a) Every fifteen years from 3,600 females there can be received in sixteen years 

 24,700 seals; in sixteen years still more, and in twenty years 41,640. 



(6) In the twenty-first year the incomes begin to diminisli, provided that if in the 

 meantime, or the following sixteen years, a certain number of young seals are not left 

 to breed; and if every year a known number are left to breed, then in all following 

 years the yield will never be less than 20,000 every year. 



Tlie foregoing' cliapter of Bishop Veniaminov was written in 1837, and 

 closes liis knowledge of the topic with that year. The ''zapooska" 

 of 1834, which stopped all killing except a few food seals for the natives 

 in tlie seasons of 1835-1840, ran on in the following manner for St. Panl 

 Island, until the restoration of the rookeries in 184G-1850. This is the 

 only record extant, and I was fortunate in getting it. 



Proeezvodaytva Pooshnik Promissloo vie e droogich, sah 1SS5 goda zapoosha. 

 the killing for furs and other purposes since the zapooska of 1835. y 



(List of 



' This list above quoted, is a record kept by the Rev. Kazean Shaishnil^ov, who lived on St. Paul 

 Island throughout the period covered by it. The autographic original was given to me to copy by 

 his son, rather Paul Shaishnikov, and Kerick Artamanov, who had it in their possession on the 2d of 

 July, 1890. No similar writing exists for the same period on the island of St. (Jeorge. 



i^ow, with thislistin hand, the following tablel of Bishop Veniaminov 

 becomes intelligible. Without it, I have hitherto been unable to recon- 

 cile his statement that all killing was stopped in 1835, on the one hand, 

 and on the other, with the figures which he gives below for 1835, and 

 up to the end of his record in 1837 ; but, on turning to Shaislinikov's 

 item for that year, we see that the bishop's total of "4,052" as taken 

 that year on St. Paul really was only " 100 sMm of bachelor fur seals " 

 and '■'■ 3,952 sliins of pups'''' — '■'■ gray'''' pups, or 5-montli-old''s, having by 

 that time shed their black natal coats and donned their gray over- 

 hair seagoing jackets. Thus we observe that the killing for market, 

 was literally stopped. The pups were taken by the natives for food 

 and clothing. 



Table 1, part 2. — Bishop Veniaminov's Zapieska,etc.., showing the seal catch during the 

 %joriod of gradual diminution of life on the islands from ISI'7 down to 1837. 



Tear. 



1817 

 1818 

 1819 

 1820 

 1821 

 1822 

 1823 

 1824 

 1825, 

 1826 

 1827. 

 1828. 



Takeji from- 



St. Paul 

 Island. 



47, 860 

 45, 932 

 40, 300 

 39, 700 

 35, 750 

 28, 150 

 24, 100 

 19, 850 

 24, 600 

 23, 250 

 17,750 

 18, 450 



St. George 

 Island. 



12,328 

 13, 924 

 11, 925 

 10, 520 

 9,245 

 8,319 

 5,773 

 5,550 

 5,500 



1,950 



4,778 



Total. 



Tear. 



1829 



1830 



1831 



1832 



1833 



1834 



1835 



1836 



1837 



Total 



Taken from- 



St. Paul St. George rp„+„i 

 Island. Island. ^°*'*^- 



3,661 

 2,834 

 3,084 

 3,296 

 3,212 

 3, 051 

 2,528 

 2,550 

 2,582 



114, 665 



20,811 

 18, 034 

 16, 034 

 16, 446 

 16, 412 

 15, 751 

 6,580 

 6,590 

 6,802 



578, 924 



