REPORT OF BRITISH COMMISSIONERS. 329 



Index io report of Beliring Sea Commission, etc. — Coiitinned. 



Paragraph. 



Page. 



Pelagic catch {see also Pelagic Sealing) — Continued. 



Early catches in Behring Sea 



Incompleteness of United States statistics , 



Number per bo.at and man 



Proportion of females 



Skins taken in 1891 



Summary from 1871 to 1891 



Pelagic Sealers — 



Not poachers , 



Opinions as to abundance of seals at. sea 



Pelagic Sealing — 



Advantages of Indian method of spearing 



Affidavits respecting {tee Affidavits) 



Amount paid to Indians engaged in 1840 



A new factor of decrease in seal life 



At first not objected to 



Beuetits to Indians 



Capital employed 



Conflicting evidence as to sexes taken 



Coutiuuation depends on abundance of seals 



Could not have caused tirst decrease on laud 



Criticisms on 



Cruelty of, as compared with land killing 



Danger to men employed 



Date of commencement , 



" " in Behring Sea 



Early history of 



Pirst known' attempts 



" practised in cauoes 



" seizures by United States Government 



Future of 



Growth of, in United States 



Improvements suggested 



Indians seldom lose seals when speared 



Loss exaggerated 



" by white hunters 



Methods enii)loyed 



None at Cape of Good Hope 



" iuFalklar.d Islands 



Not cause of dead pups in 1891 



Numl)er of gravid females caught in spring 



Origin and development of 



691 

 108, 597 



87 

 77,78 



612 

 40;i-407 



657 



585 



60 



58S 



585 



106,114 

 6:i4 

 6.')4 

 091 

 77 



610-012 

 609 

 04 

 09, 596 

 588 

 586 

 582 

 590 



654-058 

 599 



140, 150 



617-027 

 014 



616-628 



601-612 



Originated with natives on coast 



Parity of interests with land sealing 



Peculiar to North Paeiflc 



Proportion of seals lost 



Regulations suggested 



Self -regulative 



Sexes not distinguished 



United States interests in 



Value of United States and British Columbian fleets, 1S91. 

 Periods of Rest — 



Found necessary in Russian period 



Suggested as ])rotective measure 



Physical characteristics of Pribyloff and Commander Islands . 



Places visited liy British Commissioners 



Polavina KookeVy, St. Paul Island 



First driven in 1879 



Poachers — 



Term cannot be applied to pelagic sealers 



Precautions on Islands — 



Better on Commanders than Pribyloffs 



Pribylotf Islands- 

 Date of discovery 



Decrease of seals noticed in 1879 



Decrease of killable seals marked in 1885 



Description of 



Historical notes on rookeries 



Killing of seals excessive 



Methods employed 



Mr. Palmer's visit to 



Native population of 



Physical characteristics of 



Statistics of skins taken ou 



Proportion of Seals lost at Sea — 



(iS'ee Pelagic Sealing.) 

 Protection (see Protective Measures and Regulations) — 



Australasia 



Condiiions of, .summarized 



Desirable 



Duty of, affirmed 



355 



648 



61-63. 66-08, 



571-600 



571-580 

 126 

 65 



613-632 

 650 



118, 055 

 633 

 103 

 600 



40 



105 



244-276 



256 

 684 



427 



247 



084 



090 



250-253 



782-833 



0.54 



659-073 



723 



244-270 



109 



129 

 146 

 145 



204 

 207 



219-241 



155 

 156 



4,5 



187-189 



