;28 REPORT OF BRITISH COMMISSIONERS. 



Index to report of Beliring Sea Commission, etc. — Continuccl. 



Paragrapli. 



Methods of taking Seals — 



Improvements suggested at sea 



" '• GO shore 



Migration — 



At Uape of Good Hope 



Course of seals in spring 



In Koitb Paoilic 



Inquiries as to, made in British Columbia 



None at Falkland Islands 



Ilange of, on west side of Pacific 



Reasons of 



Seals travel north in spring and south in autumn. 



Southern course in Kortb Pacific hypothetical 



Two lines of 



Modus Vivendi of 3 891 



Mortality of young seals in 1891 (xeeDead Pups) 



149, 150 

 147, 148 



195 



171-196 



172 



IV. 



Native interests on islands 



Natives on Islaiuls — 



Alleged ill trcatmiMit of 



Insutiicient ooal 8U))iily to 



Native races interested in sealing 



Neali Bay (see Cape Flattery) — 



Evidence of Indians as to gravid females taken near , 



Nets- 

 Employment of should be forbidden 



Grey pups obtained by 



Newfoundland protective Kegulatiuns 



New South Wales — • 



Sealing industry in, ceased to exist 



New Zealand- 

 Seal fishery of 



Nordenskiold, Baron — ■ 



Letter from 



North Atlantic — 



Fur-seal unknown in 



North-East Point, St. Paul Island — 



Kookery on 



North Rookery, St. George Island 



North-west catch — 



Sales in London 



North-west Coast — 



Indian seal fishery on 



Number killed on Islands (see also Killing of Seals on Pribylolf 

 Islands) — 



Not properly curtailed 



Suggested maximum , 



" minimum 



Number Limit^ — 



Best combined with time limit , 



Possible application of, at sea 



Safe maximuTu sliould be fixed on land 



Especially effective on land , 



Number of Seals on Islands — 



Atfected most by excessive killing on shore 



Area occupied best index of 



Bryant's method of enumerating , 



Elliott's " " 



Estimates of, exaggerated 



Opinions of various authorities as to 



197-208 



208 



27 



196 



27 



595 



344-356 



723-726 



724 



725 



526-570 



635 



150 

 656 



837 



250, 390, 391 

 257 



Okhotsk Sea- 

 Fur-seal in 



Origin of decrease of seals. 



Otter Island- 

 Raids on 



Seals on 



O. 



72, 73. 131 

 155 

 156 



137 



136, 161 



151 



131 



92 

 368 

 358 

 359 

 90, 305 

 366 



522 

 674-693 



746 

 254, 740 



Pacific — 



Migrations of fur-seal in (see Migration). 

 Palmer, Mr. W.— 



Observations on breeding-islands 



Pelagic catch (*ee also Pelagic Sealing). 



Approximate statistics of United States ... 



Behring Sea, about 5 per cent, cows in milk . 



British Columbian, Reports of 



" " schooners 



Character and composition of 



Diagrams illustrating 



652 

 633-653 



207-212 

 Facing 22 and 150 



