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— Active and honorary memberships — Loro 

 Bonito now learns the Stanford "yell" — 

 Mrs. Stanford's gratitude — Herbert C. Nash 



Chapter Twenty-two 545 



1. Fur Seal problem — Blaine's mare claxisum — 

 Breeding homes — Roving habits — Disastrous 

 effect of pelagic sealing — Contention of the 

 Unites States — Paris Award 



2. Early records — First estimate as to numbers — 

 Land killing of males — My associates — A 

 capable group — The British commission — 

 Through Alexander Archipelago — A great 

 achievement — Removal to Annette Island — 

 New allegiance — Sitka — Glaciers and vol- 

 canoes — Unalaska — Dolly Vardens big and 

 small — Arctic flora — St. George 



3. St. Paul — The Aleuts — The "Roblar Man" 



— Puzzled experts — Apollon's big halibut — 

 To Zapadni and back — A tale of the Mist 

 Islands — Deep-sea fishes — The first Bogoslof 



— The last 



4. Life on the Pribilofs — The white seal — Count- 

 ing harems — The old fellows leave — The little 

 Blue Fox — Fox walks — An odd countenance 

 Cruel eyes — Marie Corelli and the Gray Sea 

 Lion — The Hair Seal 



5. "Through storm and fog, by luck or log, We sail 

 as Bering sailed" — Greater Britain — A tempt- 

 ing offer — Stories told to children — Youthful 

 critics — "The Care and Culture of Men" — 

 "The Innumerable Company" — Foster and 

 Hamlin — To end pelagic sealing — Richard 

 Olney — Li Hung Chang 



6. McKinley's Cabinet — John Sherman — 

 McKinley and Sherman — John Hay — Mar- 

 rack's speech — "Lessons of the Tragedy" — 

 We make the laws 



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