THE COURSE. l8l 



We first discover seals on their way to the 

 breeding grounds in January and February, off Mle8 * el8M > *• m - 

 Cape Race. 



I observed that the fur-seals usually commence to move through both 

 the East and West Passes of Umnak into Bering- 

 Sea about the last of May, the majority enter in Arthur Newman, p. 210. 

 the latter part of June, while very few are to be 



seen moving north after the middle of July. The seals going north 

 through these passes are mostly females and young bachelors ; very few 

 bulls go that way. The natives first reported fur-seals moving south 

 through the same passes about the 1st of October. The majority pass 

 into the Pacific between the 20th of October and the first of November, 

 while the last ones are usually observed about the 25th of November. 

 The seals moving south are gray pups, and medium-sized seals, the for- 

 mer in the majority. I can not distinguish the sex of fur-seals in the 

 water. 



Seals leaving the Bering Sea via the Western Passes are generally 

 seen moving steadily towards the south during northerly and north- 

 westerly weather, but very rarely before a northeasterly wind. I think 

 a somewhat larger portion of the seal herd moves through the East Pass 

 of Umnak than through the West Pass. The proportions of pups, etc., 

 are about the same, however. * * * 



While sailing between San Francisco and Unalaska I never saw a 

 fur-seal in the water between sight of the highland of the Aleutians and 

 San Francisco, but close to the Fox Islands generally fell in with 

 plenty of them. I never saw a fur-seal in the water between Amukta 

 Pass and Attu Island. 



Fur-seals are very little known at Atka and Attu, and it is my be- 

 lief that the farthest west the main herd moves 

 to and from Bering Sea is through the Four Moun- Arthur Newman, p. 211. 

 . tain Islands Pass. 



The seal always come here before the birds begin to sing very much, 

 and they are all gone when the salmon berries 

 get ripe, which I think is between the months of NtUa-ah,p. 288. 

 March and July. * * * 



About the time the wild geese are flying north the seals are most 

 plentiful. 



We commenced hunting outside of Cape Cook, about 5 miles from 

 shore, and hunted from there up to Unamak Pass, 

 in the Aleutian Islands and entered the Bering John Olsen, p. 471. 

 Sea about the 5th of June, and was ordered out 

 of the sea the 19th of June. 



Seals first appear off Cape Flattery about the 1st of January, and 

 pass on up the coast and begin to disappear in 

 June, the old cows leaving first, and about the Osly,p. 391. 

 last of June they are all gone. 



