MIGRATION OP THE HERD. 127 



Pribilof Islands, or of the seals ever hauliuo' out Hferd does not 



land e:scept on 



on the coast or neighbormg islands; and Capt.P^i^i^of islands. 

 Andersen, who has cruised seven years in Bering- 

 Sea, says the natives of Bristol Bay and St. 

 Michael do not know what a fur-seal is/ Capt. 

 Victor Jacobson, one of the best known sealers 

 of Victoria, British Columbia, who has seen 

 eleven years of seal hunting, and is the owner 

 and master of the sealing schooner Mary Ellen 

 and owner of the schooner Minnie^ says: "I have 

 never known a fur-seal to haul out upon any 

 part of the coast of the United States, British 

 Columbia, or Alaska. All parts of the coast have 

 been visited by the seal hunters, and if seals 

 hauled out any place it would have been known 

 by the hunters."^ 



This statement is made still strons^er by the Herd does not 



*=• •' enter inland wa- 



fact that the seals do not enter the inland waters *^*^^''^- 

 of the coast during their migration, remaining 

 always in the open sea or at the mouths of large 

 bays, inlets, and gulfs.^ Father Francis Verbeke, 

 Roman Catholic priest at Barclay Sound, says 

 that he has never seen or heard of fur-seals 

 inside of Barclay Sound; they are all found out- 



1 Vol. II, p. 205. 



2 Vol. II, p. 329. 



sjoliu Margathe, Vol. II, p. 308; Billy Nahoo, Vol.11, p. 252; 

 Konkoual, Vol.11, p. 251; Albert Kcetnuck, Vol.11, p. 250 



