188 MIGRATION OF THE HERD. 



They appear to travel in two columns, the outer column containing 

 an army only of bulls, and the inner one mostly 

 Mori-is Moss,p. 341. cows and yearlings. Those columns are not con- 

 tinuous schools of seals, but rather small parties 

 scattered along. The column traveling along the British Columbia 

 coast head for the Pribilof Islands ; their natural breeding ground. 



FurseaN travel in large schools, which follow each other closely. 

 The annual migration of their entire number oc- 

 T. Jr. smith, p. 233. cupies from three to tour weeks in passing a point 

 in the region of Prince William Sound, and they 

 move from the southward and eastward to the northward and west- 

 ward. 



HERD DOES NOT LAND EXCEPT ON TRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



Page 126 of The Case. 



I have no knowledge of the existence' of any rookeries or anyplace 

 where fur-seals haul up on the land in the North- 



Andrew Anderson. p. 217. em Hemisphere other than those fur-seal rookeries 

 on the several seal islands of Bering Sea. 



I never knew of fur-seals hauling out to rest or breed at anyplace in 

 the Aleutian chain, or anywhere, in fact, except 



C. H. Anderson, p. 205. the well-known rookeries of the several seal is- 

 lands of Bering Sea. 



I do not know nor have I ever heard of any place where seals haul 



A _ TI . . . OOQ out or breed except the seal islands of the Ber- 



N. n. Anderson, p. 226. . ~ *■ 



mg Sea. 



Peter Anderson, p. 313. Xor have I ever known fur-seals to haul up any- 

 where on the land except on the Pribilof Islands. 



Have never known of fur seals hauling upon the land on the coast 

 of Alaska. Have seen them haul up on the Pri- 

 Adam Ayonkee, p. 255. bilof Islands. 



Q. Do you know of any place where seals land outside of the seal 

 islands? — A. The seals are found only on certain 



Geo. Ball, j>. 482. islands, where they migrate from year to year for 



the purpose of breeding — throwing their pups. 



I know of none, nor neither do I believe there is any place where the 

 fur-seals haul up to breed on land along our shores 

 JVm. Bendt,p. 405. or in the Bering Sea. except on Pribilof Islands. 



Milton 0. Bennett, p. 357. Have never known seal to haul up on the coast 

 anywhere outside of the Pribilof Islands. 



Martin Benson, p. 105. I have never heard of any fur-seal hauling up 

 on the coast elsewhere than on the Pribilof Islands. 



The Alaska fur seal breeds nowhere else except on the Pribilof 



Islands. 1 took particular care in investigating 



Charles Bryant,p. 4. the question of what became of the seal herd while 



absent from the islands. My inquiries were made 



