724 INDEX. 



Sea lion— Coutinued. Page. 



Meat of 123 



Methods of driving 147 



Physical characteristics of 138 



Kookeries, organization of 141 



Sea otter : 



Description of 300 



Fur of 302 



Manner of taking 301 



Seal flesh used medicinally by natives 123 



Seal grounds in the Southern Hemisphere 5 



Seal Islands. (See a/so, Pribilof Islands.) 



Law protecting 252, 449 



Law, suggested, for protection of 448 



Eeports on, in Treasury Department 180 



Russian, need of definite knowledge concerning 113, 379 



Seal pirates and their work 510, .520 



Seal life : 



Decline of, from 1817 to 1834 439 



Increase of 101, 108 



Review of Wi 



Statements concerning 377 



Seal oil, inferiority of 134 



Sealers, classification of 436 



Sealing in Alaska - 634 



Sealing, method of 175 



Sealing, pelagic, a recent enterprise 132 



Sealing plant on the Pribilof Islands, value of 535 



Seals : 



Arri val of, on rookeries 46, 54, 375 



Attitudes of, on land 58 



Battles of 49 



Behavior of - ■• 57,106,265 



Blubber of 121 



Bones of, fragile character 135 



Cliaracteristics of 65,69,170 



Classification of 169 



Color of 50,55 



Comp.^rative size of males and females 409 



Courage of 57 



Course i^ursued by, after leaving islands 103 



Cow, description of 54 



Decrease of, notes of an interview on 505 



Description of 130 



Docilitvof :-. 117,399 



Driving 319,395 



Driving and killing, method of 296,400 



Effects of heat on 52,118,400 



Enemies of 104,293,370 



Fasting of, on rookeries 53, 291 



Female, behavior of, on rookeries 57 



Female, weight of 58 



Flesh of, as food 122 



Flesh of, used medicinallv by natives 123 



Food of -. 104,371,508 



Fur of 133,171,409 



Gentleness of 385 



Geographical distrbution of ---- 4 



Gradation of the fur of 409 



Growth, weight, etc. , of 274 



Habits of... 169,290 



Harems, size of 56, 376 



, Hauling grounds of 383 



Holluschickie, classification of, by age 72, 408 



Holluschickie, description of 67 



"Hospitals" for disabled bulls 62 



Indiscriminate slaughter by first discoverers 439 



Injurious effects of driving 319 



Irregularity of appearance of, on Pribilof Islands 271 



