THE ALASKAN SEAL HERD. 97 



Island.^ Between parallels 174° west and 175° Docs not min-ic 



witliKussiaiilieid. 



east seals are seldom seen,^ and only a few scat- 

 tering ones are seen at long intervals in the 

 neighborhood of Attn Island, which probal)ly, 

 from the conrse in which they are traveling, are 

 members of the Commander herd;^ Pud 

 Zaotchnoi, one of the native chiefs of the Aleuts 

 of Atka Island, sa3^s-: "The fur-seal is only 

 rarely seen about this region, scattering ones 

 being seen occasionally during the months of 

 September, October, and November, traveling 

 from the northward to the southward through 

 the passes between Atka and Amlia islands. 

 Those seen are always ^ray pups, and usually 

 appear after a blow from the northeast. The 

 most I ever saw in any one year was about a 

 dozen ' . . . I have never seen large bulls or 

 full grown fur seals in this region/ These gray 

 pups are the young born that season, which 

 having left the islands in the autumn are driven 

 out of their course by the storms, being unable 

 to battle against the waves as the older seals do. 

 A further evidence that seals do not frequent the 

 waters between the parallels of longitude men- 



1 Charles J. Hague, Vol. II. p. 207. 



2 Arthur Newman, Vol. II, p. 210; C. H. Anderson, Vol. II, p. 205. 

 « Eliah Prokopief,Vol. II, p. 215; Filaret Prokopiof,Vol. II, p. 216; 



Samuel Kahoorof, Vol. II, p. 214. 

 ■•Vol. II, p. 213; Kassian Gorloi, Vol. II, p. 213. 



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