726 INDEX. 



Skins— Continued. Page. 



Sketch of the Russo-China trade in 127 



Stagey, description 297 



Varying prices of 132 



Sled dogs 630 



Smith, Hoke, Secretary of the Interior, letter transmitting report to United 



States Senate 564 



Space on rookeries occupied by single seals 79, 333, 336 



Species of seals, enumeration of 41 



Sports and pastimes of young bachelor seals 385 



Sports and pastimes of native children 263, 430 



Stagey season for seals 72 



Starry Arteel Rookery, description and conditions on 96, 361, 362, 473 



Stellar, observations of 4 



Stock and poultry raising on the Pribilof Islands 17 



Suggestions for protection of seal rookeries 446 



Surgeons, native 124 



Surveys of seal rookeries 93, 100, 173, 329, 330, 367, 512, 515-517, 526 



Tax and rental paid United States by Alaska Commercial Companv, 1870-1881. 279 



Teachers in AlaBka 578-582,585,586,588,637,638 



Technical terms, glossary of 279 



Teller Reindeer Station, Alaska : 



Buildings at 639 



Daybook and journal kept at, 1894-1895 653 



Meteorological report, 1894-1895 683 



Rations for herders and apprentices 628 



Report on 598 



Testimony before House committee on loss of seals by pelagic hunters 523 



Time of appearance of seals on rookeries, 1870-1890 378 



Tolstoi Rookery, description and conditions on 85, 347, 348, 460 



Topography of St. Matthew Island 191 



Toyones, functions of 37 



Training of reindeer 616 



Transportation of Laplanders to Alaska 605-610 



Treadwell gold mine 578 



Treasury Department, reports of Government agents on file in 180 



Treatment of natives by Alaska Commercial Company 177, 298 



Topography of the Pribilof Islands 25, 26 



Unalaska, work of Methodist Woman's Home Mission Society 584 



Unga, Alaska, gold mining at 583 



United States : 



Tax and rental paid to, by Alaska Commercial Company, 1870-1881 279 



Terms of lease of seal islands to Alaska Commercial Company.. 178, 307, 451, 452 



Value of reindeer skins 573 



Value of seal life on the Pribilof Islands 112 



Value of the sealing plant on the Pribilof Islands 535 



Values, weights, and measures, Russian 281 



Vegetation on Commander Islands 186 



Vegetation on Juan Fernandez Island 198 



Vegetation on the Pribilof Islands 13 



Veniaminov, Innocent (Bishop) : 



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



Account of the discovery of the Pribilof Islands 239 



Account of the seal industry on the Pribilof Islands 232 



Reference to work of 76, 332 



Values of skins given by 269 



Villages of St. Paul and St. George 137 



Vision, range of seals' 65 



Vitality of seals 60 



Voice of the seal 51 



Walrus : 



Destruction of, for ivory 565 



Geographical distribution of 162 



Hides, uses of 163 



Hunting, antiquity of 166 



Ivory of i 166 



Life history of 153 



Meat of 165 



Physical characteristics of 156, 158 



