176 MIGRATION OF THE HEED. 



mer and are now j£oing south. We do not use nets. There are no old 

 seals with these pups; they are the young- pups that are driven in by 

 by the strong' north winds. We go out as far as the cape at the mouth 

 of Makushin Bay and find the pups here and there; they are never 

 together in great numbers. 



When the seals leave the islands they goto the southward, and when 



they come baek in the spring they come from that 



Aggei Kuahen, p. 130. direction. The bulls begin to leave the island 



about the middle of August, and most of them 



are gone by the middle of September. The cows and bachelors leave 



in November and the pups follow or go with the cows. When the 



weather is good a number of seals will cling to the beach or remain 



in the water around the rookeries until December and sometimes until 



late in January. 



Have always hunted off Sitka Sound. The seals generally make 

 their appearance about April 15 of each year. 



Geo. Lachcek,p.26i. They are then advancing up the coast and disap- 

 pear entirely about July 1. 



In the Victoria vessels we started in to hunt fur- seals off Cape Flat- 

 tery in February both years, following the seals 

 E. L. Lawson, p. 221. along the coast as far as the Fair Weather ground. 

 In the American vessels hunting began at Sand 

 Point in June, and, working on with the main herd from that vicinity, 

 Ave followed the seals through Uuimak Pass into Bering Sea. 



We left Vancouver Island on the 1st of June, and on the 9th of the 

 same month, when off Baranoff Island, put over the hunting canoes 

 for the first time. We stayed with the main herd of the seals until 

 the 2Gth of -Tune, following them along theeoastto the vicinity of Cape 

 St. Elias, where we left them and stood across -to the entrance to Aku- 

 tan Pass, occasionally taking a few fur-seals. 



Scaling operations were resumed on July 18 to the southward of the 



Fox Islands, and on the 23d we entered Bering 



Jas. E. Lennan, p. 370. Sea, where wo remained fourteen days, at the end 



of that time returning to Vancouver Island, which 



was reached on the 28th of August. 



The vessels leave port, the most of them going out either from Vic- 

 toria or San Francisco in the early spring, and 

 Isaac Liebes, p. 452. commence their season's work off Cape Flattery 

 in April or the early part of May. They then fol- 

 low the seals upon their northward passage towards Bering Sea and 

 finally, in June or early in July, into those waters, killing every animal 

 possible as they go. They formerly commenced their voyages still fur- 

 ther south along the California coast, but as seals have become scarcer, 

 they do not, in the last year or two, get many south of the Oregon 

 coast. 



The first seals appear in the strait and on the coast about the last of 



December and feed along the coast, and seem to 



James Lighthouse, p. 300.be working slowly to the north, until about the 



middle of June, at which time the cows are pretty 



much all gone, but the smaller seals remain until the middle of July. 



