414 SUBJECT-INDEX OF CASE. 



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Pelagic sealing 297 



Age of vessels eugaged iu 276 



Comparison of, with seal-skin industry 78, 80, 81, 277 



Canadian investment in 1890 275 



Cause of decrease 176 



Destructicju of feuiale seals by 197 



Destruction of pregnant ieuiales by i 207, 209 



Distance of, from isbuids 258 



Effects of 216 



Fire-arms introduced in 188 



History of 1^'^ 



Increase of inexperienced hunters in 193 



Indian hunters, manner of 189 



Indians employed as hunters jjrior to 1885 187 



Makes the seals wild 192 



Methods of 189 



Number of persons employed in Canadian 278 



Percentage of seals lost of those killed by 195 



Prohibition of, b;\' Russia 44 



Results of 190 



Seals lost by sinking 194 



Seals lost by wounding 191 



Speculative 282 



Two ways in which a seal may be killed by, aiul not secured 190 



Vessel's outfit, etc 189 



Vessels used in 187 



Waste of life by 190,216 



Peninsula of Alaska 13 



Period between 1862 and 1867 68-70 



Period between the treaties of 1824 and 1825 and the cession of Alaska 61-70 



Pigott affair 45-49 



Podding 105 



of seals on killing grounds 163 



Prayer for decision 301 



Preservation of seal herd. {Sec Protection of seal herd.) 



Pribilof Islands 15, 89 



Absence of liarbors 18 



Anchorage at 18 



Animal life of - 19 



Climate. 18,90 



Decrease as seen on 166 



Discovery of : 23 



Geographical sketch of 15-20 



Home of the f>ir-sea] 91 



Inhabitants of 20 



Location of 15 



