INDEX 



Aliandonment of— Page. 



breediug territory 104 



cause of 137, 138 



Marunichen 138 



Spilki 137 



Acreage measurement — 



contrast of 88 



difficulty of 75 



summary of 88 



Act of Congress 17 



Actual counts 90,109 



Adams, Bristow 21 



Affidavits of furriers 244 



Agents, Government 35, 191 



Alaska Commercial Company 28 



lease of 29,236 



Alaska, transfer of 24 



Aleuts, condition of 34 



notions of 139 



Alexander, A. 15. : 



investigations regarding sexes 1.55 



spearing of seals 144 



Alleged change of habits 134 



Allen, Dr. J. A 43,73 



American contentious 180 



American fur-seal catch: 



1894 215 



1895 217 



1896 219 



1897 220 



American citizens prohibited from sealing 176,246 



American management 28 



Amphitheater of Kitovi : 



count of "'4, 212 



harems on 54 



synopsis of counts 53 



Antarctic seals 43 



Arbitration Tribunal 30, 177, 231 



award of . ; 231 



declarations of 236 



regulations of 180, 234 



Arbitrary selection of males 136 



Arbitration: 



p'-opos.als for 178 



treaty of 179,228 



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Arctocephalus 43 



Ardiguen 39,107 



Arrival of seals 49 



Atlantic seals 43 



Average harem 90 



Babine, A. V 37 



Bachelor, the 46 



Bachelors : 



landing of 49 



of Bering Island 135 



Bachelor herd, decline of 29 



Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H 18, 125 



Basis of enumeration 101 



Bayard, Secretary 177 



Beaman, .J. W., counts of 82,83 



Bering Island 119 



dearth of bulls on 125 



Bering Sea, sealing in 143, 146 



Bering, Vitus, second voyage of 23 



Blaine, Secretary 178 



Breeding grounds 36 



Breeding seals: 



estimate of 89 



summary of 93 



Breediug season : 



breaking up 67 



height of 53, 54 



British contentions 87, 



153, 1.54, 1.59, 161, 162, 163, 168, 180 



Bryant, Capt. Charles 77,139 



estimate for 1869 77 



note on Kitovi 82 



Buckshot in seals 145 



Bull, the 46 



Bulls: 



condition of 67 



count of 100 



discipline of 58 



fasting of 57 



fighting of 52, .59, 60, 61 



no lack of 122,127 



not impotent 127 



proportion of, to cows 119, 194 



scarcity of, on Bering Island 125 



superfluous 120 



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