VIII CONTENTS. 



Managkmext of tiir seal rookeries — Continued. Page- 



Ameudmeut of 1874 136 



Investigation of 1876 136 



Investigation of 1888 137 



Methods of management 137 



Unlicensed working impracticabe 138 



Working by Government impracticable 138 



Workings of the lease of 1870 139 



Condition of the natives 140 



Under the Russian Company 141 



Under American control 142 



Improvement 143 



Government agent 145 



Lease of 1890 145 



Comparison of leases 146 



The seals 147 



Control and domesti cation 147 



Regulations for killing 150 



Protection of females 150 



The killable class 152 



Disturbance of breeding seals 152 



Number killed 153 



Manner of taking 155 



Driving 155 



Overdriving and redriving 158 



Improvement over Russian methods of takiug 161 



Killing 163 



Salting and kenching 163 



Improvement in treating the skins 163 



Increase 164 



Decrease of the Alaskan seal herd : 



Evidence of decrease 165 



Period of stagnation 165 



On Pribilof Islands 166 



Evidence 169 



Along the coast 169 



Cause 172 



Lack of male life not the cause 172 



Raids on rookeries not the cause 174 



Management of rookeries not the cause 176 



Excessive killing the admitted cause 176 



Pelagic sealing the sole cause 176 



Opinions 177 



American Commissioners 177 



Dr. Allen 177 



Experts 177 



