CONTENTS. 



Page. 



The new administration 3 



Increased scope of agents' duty 3 



Hire of vessel and purchase and transportation of supplies 4 



Employees 5 



Transfer of lessee's property 6 



Natives' affairs 8 



Supply depot 9 



Bank accounts 10 



Resources of natives 11 



Census of inhabitants 12 



Management of seal herd 12 



Marking of bachelors 12 



Statistics of killing 14 



Skins shipped 14 



Record of drives 15 



Weights of skins taken 19 



Enumeration of breeding herd 21 



Counts of harems 21 



Counts of pups 23 



Number of breeding dows 23 



Census of entire seal herd 24 



Estimate of half bulls 24 



Estimate of 2-year-olds 24 



Number of yearlings 25 



Number of 3-year-olds 25 



Summary of seal life in 191 25 



Pup-raising experiments 26 



Pelagic sealing 28 



Wreck of revenue-cutter Perry 29 



Foxes 29 



Conditions and trapping on St. George 30 



Trapping on St. Paul 31 



Recommendations 31 



Killing of bachelor seals 31 



Support of natives 33 



Scheme of compensation of natives 36 



Natives ou the Aleutian Archipelago 36 



Manual training for natives 39 



Fire protection for Pribilof Islands 40 



