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The Pribilof herd does not mingle with the herd located on the Com- 

 mander Islands. This I know from the fact that 

 the herd goes eastward after entering' the Pacific Chas. Bryant, p. 4. 

 Ocean, and from questioning natives and half- 

 breeds who had resided in Kamchatka as employes of the Russian 

 Fur Company, I learned that the Commander herd on leaving their 

 islands go southwestward into the Okhotsk Sea and the waters to the 

 southward of it and winter there. This fact was further verified by 

 whalers who find them there in the early spring. 



In the latter part of September of 18G7, in the brig Kentucky, mak- 

 ing passage between Petropaulowski and Kadiak, 

 I observed the Commander Islands seal herd on Chas. J. Hague, p. 207. 

 its way from the rookeries. They moved in a com- 

 pact mass or school, after the manner of herring, and were making a 

 westerly course toward the Kurile Islands. 

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