AND ADJOINING KEGIONS. 



127 



The value of skins from the Unalaska district during the year 183 

 (at whicli time fur-seal skins were scarce) is illustrated by the followiug 

 table' compiled by the same person: 



Sea-otters 



Black foxes 



Cross foxes 



Eed foxes 



Lapd-otters 



Fur-seals 



Blue foxes 



AVnlrns ivory 



"Whalebone 



Miscellaneous furs. 



Sum total . 



No. of 



skins. 



100 



300 



600 



500 



80 



15, 000 



1,500 



100 poods. 



200 poods. 



Price per 



skiu. 



Paper 



rubles. 



450 

 150 

 ■ 25 

 10 

 50 

 50 

 10 

 80 

 40 



Sum of 

 value. 

 Paper 

 rubles. 



45, 000 

 45, 000 

 15, 000 

 5, 000 

 4, 000 

 750, 000 

 15, 000 

 8,01-0 

 8, 000 

 1,000 



896,000 



Tikhmenief publishes two main tables ^ showing the numbers of all 

 furs exported from the Russian American Colonies between the years 

 1821 and 18G2. 



Following are the data contained in the first table, which covers the 

 period from 1821 to 1842: 



Sea-otters 25, 416 



Sea-otter tails 23, 506 



Fur-seals 458,502 



Whalebone poods.. ^3^ 455 



Land-otters 29, 442 



Foxes (brown, gray, and red)... 90,322 



Walrus ivory poods . . 6, 501 



Beavers do *162, 034 



Blue foxes 69,352 



Following are the data contained in the second table, which covers 

 the period from 1842 to 1862 : 



Sea-otters 25, 899 



Foxes 77, 847 



Blue foxes 54,134 



Fur-seals 372, 894 



Beavers 157, 484 



Laud-otters 70 473 



Lvnxes 6,927 



Saldes 12,782 



Bears 1,893 



Wolves 



24 



Muskrats 3, 570 



Wolverines 10 



Minxes 872 



Castoriums poods.. ^103 



Walrus ivory do ' 765 



Beaver tails 25, 797 



Paws 40,588 



During the years 1863-1867 there were exported from the Russian 

 American Colonies fur-seals to the number of 198,718.^ 



1 Page 83. This author explains at length the causes of the diminution of seal life 

 during the period concerning which he wrote. 



s Tikhmenief, Vol. i, p. 327, and Vol. ii, p. 221. 



^ And 10 pounds. 



■* And 6 pounds. 



' And 16 pounds. 



6 And 21 pounds. 



' And 34 pounds. 



« Tenth Census Report of the United States, Report on the the Population, Indus- 

 tries, and Resources of Alaska, p. 61. See, generally, this report for greater details 

 as to the whole of the foregoing. 



