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. Jf omt Hope, Alaska, school 596 



Polar bears on St. Matthew Island 192 



Polar bears on the Pribilof Islands 190 



Polavina Rookery, de8cri])tiou and conditions on 88, 351, 353, 465 



Police, Eskimo 640 



Policy of the Alaska Commercial Company 177 



Population of Sitka, Alaska 579 



Position of breeding rookeries and hauling; grounds on the Pribilof Islands.. 170 



Poultry and stock raising on the Pribilof Islands 17 



Pribilof Islands. {See also St. George Island; St. Paul Island.) 



Account of the decline of seal life on, from 1817 to 1834 439 



Agriculture and its possibilities 15 



Amiable character of natives 262 



Aqnatic invertebrates 19 



Attachment of, natives to 263 



Birds of 18,207-226 



Breeding grounds, surveys of 93, 329, 330 



Climatic conditions 10, 169 



Description 10,289 



Dimensions and contour of 20 



Discovery of 9 



Fishes of 19,227 



Geographical situation 10, 169, 289 



Geological formation of 13 



Governors of, 1799-1867 270 



Harbors and anchorages 21 



Hauling grounds, position of. . . -• 170 



History, early 27 



Insects of 15 



Invertebrates of 227 



Land and scenery of 20 



Law for protection of fur-bearing animals 252, 449 



Law, suggested, for protection of 448 



Lease of 174,295 



Mammals of 16, 206 



Meteorological conditions 11, 247 



Native labor and pay, conduct of ._ 434 



Natives 27,294,419 



Number of seals taken on, 1817-1837 445 



Number of seals taken on, 1868-1890 529 



Occupation of, by Americans 36 



Otter Island 22 



Plants of 228 



Polar bears on 190 



Rookeries, position of 170 



Rookeries, surveys of 93, 100, 173, 329, 367, 512, 515-517, 526 



Seal life on, pecuniary value of 112 



Seal pirates and their work on 510, 520 



Seals, irregularity of appearance on 271 



Seals, methods and seasons of killing 275 



Skins taken for shipment and sale on, 1797-1880 115 



Stock and poultry raising 17 



Terms of lease of 178, 307, 451, 452 



Time of killing seals, 1870-1890 415 



Value of the sealing plant on 535 



Vegetation on 13 



Veniaminov's account of the discovery of 239 



Veiiiaminov's account of the seal industry on 232 



Villages of St. Paul and St. George 137 



Walrus Island 23 



Walrus on 1.53 



Prices of seal skins 132 



Progression of a seal drive 398 



Prostration of seals by heat 52, 118,400 



Pups, seal: 



Change of coat 64 



Description of 59, 64 



Destruction of, by killer whales 511 



Habits of 264 



H. Doc. 92, pt. 3 46 



