260 THE SEALS. 



The best methods of managing seal rookeries are as well understood 

 and as carefully practiced as any other branch of 



C. F. Emil Krebs,p. 196. husbandry, ami the same methods have been pur- 

 sued with such excellent results through a long 

 series of years that there can be no doubt about their correctness. 



From 1870 to about 1884 the seal rookeries were 

 Aggei Kualien, p. 128. always filled out to their limits, and sometimes 

 beyond them. 



That while located on the Pribilof Islands I was the greater part of 

 that period upon the island of St. Paul; that dur- 



H. H. Mclntyre, p. 44. big the twenty-one years upon the islands I ex- 

 amined at frequent intervals of time the breeding 

 rookeries on said island of St. Paul, and now recollect the condition of 

 said rookeries and the approximate area which each of them covered at 

 different times during my experience on said islands; that I have in- 

 dicated to the best of my recollection the grounds covered by said 

 rookeries in the year 1870 by a red line, and the grounds so covered in 

 the year 1882 by a blue line, on the exhibits signed by me and marked 

 exhibits A, B, C, D, E, F, and G-. That the grounds indicated by said 

 lines are practically correct and represent approximately the areas cov- 

 ered by breeding seals on said rookeries in said years of 1870 and 1882. 



I further depose and say I have examined the charts of said St. Paul 

 Island, made, as I am informed and believe, by J. Stanley Brown; that 

 to the best of my knowledge the spaces represented on said charts, as 

 grounds over which the bachelor seals have hauled at various times 

 during my experience, are practically correct. 



That from the year 1870 there was an expansion of the areas of the 

 breeding grounds, and that in the year 1882 they 



R. H. Mclntyre, p. 45. were as large as at any time during my acquaint- 

 ance with them. 



This number 100,000 was easily secured every year from 1871 to 1885, 

 and at the same time a constant increase of the seal 

 H. H. Mclntyre, p. 48. rookeries was observed. I am satisfied that with 

 good management upon the islands, and the ces- 

 sation of pelagic sealing, this number could have been secured annually 

 up to this time, and for an indefinite future. 



During the whole period of seventeen years from 1808 to 1885, no 

 difficulty was experienced in obtaining the full 



H. H. Mclntyre, p. 50. quota of 100,000 well selected, marketable skins. 

 I know this to be a fact during all these years, 

 up to and including 18S2, from personal observation and experience 

 continued from day to day, in actively managing the business, and am 

 assured by the daily record kept by my assistants, and by their reports 

 to me from time to time, that they were equally successful in season- 

 ably obtaining a desirable catch from 1883 to 1885, inclusive, while I 

 was away from the islands. The work was not completed as early in 

 the seasons from 1880 to 1885 as it had formerly been. This was chiefly 

 due to the greater care exercised in selecting animals to be killed. In 

 order that the selection should be made from as large a number as 

 possible, and to satisfy the requirements of the Treasury agents in 

 charge, who demanded that all the rookeries be worked in regular 



