610 SUBJECT-INDEX. 



Seal-skins — Continued. Page. 



Kenching 256 



Number of, imported into United States. (See Loss to United States.) 

 Price in London market of. (See Loss to United States.) 



Salting the 256 



Sex of the animals can be told from 413, 416 



Sex of seals can not be distinguished in the water 366-376 



Shotgun. (See Firearms.) 



Sinking of seals killed by pelagic sealers 404 



Sinking, use of gaff to secure seals 404, 405 



Skins. (See Seal-skins.) 



Slaughter of 1868 211 



240,000 bachelors killed 212 



Spear used by Indian hunting 352 



Speculation : 



Pelagic sealing a 590 



Speed in swimming 157 



St. George Island 86 



St. Paul Isla ml 86 



Swimming, speed of the seal while 157 



Tierra del Fuego, seals of 162 



Time of departure. (See Departure from islands.) 



Value of fur-seals, fur-seal industry, etc. (Sec Loss to United States.) 



Vessels first used in pelagic sealing 334 



Vitality: 



Of bulls 142 



Of pups 130 



Wagesof employe's in British seal-skin industry. (See Loss to Great Britain.) 

 Waste of life by pelegic sealing. (See pelegic sealing: Results.) 



Weapons 362 



Weight: 



Of bulls 104, 140 



Of cows 104 



Of pups 104 



White hnnters. (See Pelagic sealers and palegic sealing.) 



Wounded seals not secured 402 



Zone for protection about the Islands 522 



