APPET^DIX I. 



STATISTICS PERTINENT TO THE PRECEDINGr DISCUSSION. 



TABLE OF DAILY ELLLINGS OF FOB SEALS FUli ALL PURPOSES ON THE PIUJIILOF 

 ISLANDS FOE THE TEABS iSV-i, ISSO, 188G, AND 18S9 TO 1897, INCLUSIVE. 



INTRODUCTOEV NOTE. 



The complete table of daily killings for the period 1870 to 1889, prepared by Col. 

 Joseph Murray, having been published in Senate Doc. No. 137, Seal Life, Part 1, 1890, 

 and recently republished in " Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of 

 Alaska," House Doc. No. 92, 1898, it has not seemed necessary to repeat it in full liere. 

 From this table we have taken the record for the years 1875, 1880, 188(1, and 1889. 

 The first of these years is intended to illustrate the normal driving in the period of 

 ef]nilibriuin during the years 1871 to 1880. The record of the year 1880 is given to 

 show that no radical change had yet occurred. With it is contrasted the record of 

 1886, when, the killable seals became scarce through the decline of the breeding herd, 

 and it was necessary to multiply the drives and hauling grounds driven from to 

 secure the necessary quota of skins. The record of 1889 is introduced to form a 

 contrast to that of 1890. The driving in neither year shows normal conditions. The 

 record for 1890 and following is a continuation of Colonel Murray's set of tables, 

 taken from the official records of the islands. In the names of the I'ookeries we have 

 used the spelling adopted in the present report. 



nv. PAUI, I^tl.AIVD, 1875. 



1875. 

 Jan. 

 Feb. 



May 



Rookery. 



Northeast Point . 



do 



do 



do 



Soutliwest Bay . . 

 Northeast Point . 



do 



Keef 



do 



do 



Rookery. 



English Bay and Southwest 

 Bay 



Tolstoi 



Zoltoi and Tolatoi 



/oltoi and Reef 



Southwest Bay 



Northeast Point 



English Bay, Southwest 

 Bay, Tolstoi 



Reef anil Zoltoi 



Total 

 males 

 killed. 



1,201 

 203 

 692 

 711 



1.560 

 27 



1.456 

 631 



' Seals taken in this and sabseqaent years prior to Jane 1, when the regular sealing season began, were for natives' 

 ^ood. Such of the skins as were of suitable grade were accepted and bec^anie a part of the regnlar quota. 



2 Where, as in this initial drive of the season, two or more names are joined, it means that adjacent or convenient 

 hauling grounds were united in a single drive. Thus Zoltoi is always driven with Reef, l)ecause the route of the longer 

 drive crosses Zoltoi hauling ground. In like manner Tolstoi, Middle Hill, and English Bay are so situated as to he 

 conveniently driven together. 



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