12 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CiiAi'iK.i: IX.— TiiK Theory or Oveudi!I\ing— Continued. Page. 



The Russian drives 1^** 



Thr drive from Northeast Point l^S 



Tin; AmcTieau drives 128 



The drives greatly shortened 129 



Reef driveway 12" 



The character of the route 12!) 



The length of the drive 130 



Comiiarisou of drives 13" 



The Commander driveways 130 



Zapadni 130 



Palata 131 



No evil results from these drives 131 



Care exercised in driving 131 



The fur seal not ill-adapted to land travel 131 



The " earcass-strewn " driveways 132 



Fatalities on the <lri ves 132 



Injuries to bachelors could not affect herd 132 



The impossibility of sexual injury 133 



\'oluntary movements of the males 133 



Driving not a factor in the decline 133 



C'HAPTEU X. — AlXKOED PossuiLE Chanue OK Hahits: 



Migration to Commander Islands 134 



The tixity of habits 134 



The seal's low intelligence 134 



Contact with man has had no effect 13r> 



Alteration of conditions 135 



The bachelors of Hering Island 135 



Arbitrary selection of males 136 



The effect of decline 136 



Possibility of diiviug the seals elsewhere 136 



The abandonment of Spilki 137 



The presence of the village not the cause 137 



Exposed condition of Lagoon rookery 137 



The real cause of the abandonment 137 



()i igin of Lagoon and Spilki 138 



Abandonment of Maruuichen 138 



Elliott's theory for Sivutch rtxdiery 138 



Sivnteh overlooked in 1872-1S74 138 



The notions of the Aleuts 139 



These notions shared by Government agents 139 



The jjolicy of seclusion (letriment;il 140 



Intelligent inspection not w:inton invasiim 140 



Inspection not harmful 140 



Relations of man have not .affected the seiils 141 



Chaptei! XL— Pelaoic Sealing, on Killing at Sea: 



The nature of pelagic sealing 142 



The hunting of the Indians 142 



Introduction of white men and vessels 142 



The expansion of the industry 142 



The use of firearms 143 



The modus vivendi 143 



The regulations of the Paris aw.ard 143 



The sealing vessels 143 



Methods of sealing 144 



The seals as found 144 



Methods of capture — the spenr 144 



