404 SUBJECT-INDEX OF CASE. 



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Determination of possible catch 2'J() 



Dimensions of Bering Sea 11 



Diomede Islands - 12 



Discovery : 



Of Aleutian Islands 21 



Of Bering Strait 21 



Of Commander Islands 22 



Of Pribilof Islands 23 



Of shores of Bering Sea 20 



Disorganization of the rookeries 112 



Dispute. {See Ukase of 1821 ; Treaty of 1824 ; Treaty of 1825.) 



Dispute between the United States and Great Britain as to Pacilic Coast. .. 32 



Distance the cows go in feeding 116 



Distinction between Alaskan and Russian seal herds 94 



Documents. {See Treaty of Arbitration.) 



Dogs killed on the islands 133 



Domestication and control of the seals 147 



Drive. {See Driving.) 



Driving 155 



Care taken not to overheat seals wliilo 156 



Expertness of natives in 157 



Improvement over Eussian method of 161 



Longest ; under American control 162 



Longest ; under Russian control 162 



Long ; stopped 162 



On Commander Islands more severe than on Piibilof 160 



Slowness of 156 



Duties on Alaskan skins imported into the United States 270 



Eastern Ocean. {See Bering Sea, other names for.) 



Effects of pelagic sealing 216 



Employes: 



In Canada and London 278 



In seal-skin industry 281 



In United States 280 



Enumeration of seals impossible 93 



Evidence. (5'ee Treaty of Arbitration of 1892. j 



Examination of catches of vessels seized 206 



Examination of dead pups 215 



Examination of pelagic catch of 1892.... 203 



Extraterritorial jurisdiction. {Sec Jurisdiction, Extraterritorial.) 



Exclusive rights. {See Jurisdiction over Bering Sea.) 



Exclusive rights of Russian American Company 35, 45 



{See also Jurisdiction over Bering Sea; Russian American Company.) 



Executive, action of, relative to Alaska, (^'t'e Alaska.) 



Expedition, Bering's first 20 



Expeditions, early ones to Aleutian Islands 22 



