33 



TOTAL. 



.rl Inland .. 

 nid . . 



1890 06. 



-;;. si. 1 



6,163 

 30,005 



1896 to August. 



22,913 

 5,997 



.is killed on the islands in 1898 were accepted by the agent* of the North American 



iin'ivial r..iu|i-i M -kin> tiikrn for food in the previous mitunm (15th October) on North Rookery, 



St. (i M'jeeted, one ;is heiiii; Milder-sized, the 



Tlic iilinvi- fiu'urr- were furnished me fur St. Paul Island liv Imlui- Cruwlry. l.'iiitnl State*' Treasury Agent 



in eii::rje nf tin- 1'ribylotr N:nid. and for St. <ir" I by Mr. .Inini-- .Iu<i:;e. I'nited State*' Treasury 



Agent 



Cour \ i. \ . i vi: Frequency of Drives in past Years on the Pribyloff Islands. 

 Cf. Sen. Doc. 137, Pt. I, pp. 302-319.) 



ST. PAUL ISLAND. 



Rookerv. 



1878. 



1888. 



1889. 



ST. GEOIIOK |SI.\NI>. 



1896. 



NOTI: In the aliovo Tab!? all the " foo 1-dr.ves " and all the drives in autumn subsequent to the " stagey " 

 season aro omitted. 



The ti'_':ir.-s -iven for the years 1888-S9 nre not in all loait not in the case of the larger rookeries, 



strictly comparable with tho^.> for thi- tb^ IMORJ H soparato drives drives th.it obviously covered 



only a portion of the rookery; the figures for North-K-i-t I'oint in tiiose years should, at any rat, be divided 



liy two. Ncvertheli'ss, the rump iri-ou is of some valu . an-1 may he checked by an in;>ection of the full 



roin which the above epitome is drawn. 



It i? manifest from the above statistics that the rookeries, especially those on St. Paul 

 Island, were last year subjected to vastly less severe hamilingthan in days gone by, especially 

 in the latter years of the Alaska Company's tenure. 



There was no " rakini; and scraping " required to furnish the quota of 30,000 skins that 

 >vas last year permitted and obtained. It is equally clear that the 30,000 miicht have 

 heen considerably exceeded, though it is not safe to make assumptions reiranlin^ the 

 measure of such possible excess. But we may at least take note that the killing run-- to a 

 satisfactory end last year without the need for even a second drive at Zapadnie, from which 

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