RECORD OF CHARLES BRYANT. 263 



May G. — A food drive from Soutlnvest Bay of 600 or TOO animals was made; fi seals 

 killed ou the ground were brought home iu the bidara: the others were driven slowly 

 to the village. 



May 10. — Ou the Keef about 2(> bulls are hauled out; a few bulls are rei)orted at 

 Northeast Point and on other rookeries. 



May 16. — On the Reef, about 100 bulls are hauled out; also a small body of 

 hiilostiaki. Iu the afteruoon 00 bulls were found on Lukanin; several hundred seals 

 are reported at Zapadni, English l>aj', and Tolstoi. 



June 1. — The first regular drive of the season was made to day from Tolstoi and 

 Zapadni: Tolstoi furnished 20.'i, Zapadni ],L'01. 



June 3. — Bulls are plentiful on the Keef. but the killable seals few; the same 

 condition exists at Lukanin. 



June 7. — Two females have landed at (rorbatch, the first of the season. 



Jnne 10. — An inspection of Lukanin and Keef rookeries showed the conditions 

 to be less favorable than in former years: the bulls are not up to the former standard. 

 The reserves are wholly wanting,' except on the upj)er ])art of the Keef, and there are 

 very few holostiaki. The number of females is about equal to former years, and at 

 Gorbatch are two young pups, apparently 2 days old. 



June 20. — On Tolstoi the bulls were found occupying the breeding grounds in full 

 numbers, while the reserves- were more limited; several small groups of females had 

 landed, and a considerable number of holostiaki are hauled out on Tolstoi and English 

 Bay beaches. On Lukanin the same conditions exist, except that there are fewer 

 bachelors. 



June 23. — Complaint having been made that women gathering wood at Southwest 

 Bay disturbed the seals, orders were given to keep away from the hauling grounds. 



June 26. — A drive from Zapadni yielded 3,943 skins. Eleven skins were lost from 

 overheating of the seals on the drive. 



June 28. — An examination of the Keef shows that the breeding places are fully 

 occupied by the bulls, while the reserves are less than in former years. Lukanin 

 rookery shows the same conditions. 



.Inly 6. — The rookeries of Northeast Point show a full stock of breeding bulls but 

 a scarcity of reserves on the upland. The number of females indicates either a later 

 hauling or diminished numbers, while the stock of joung breeding bulls to mature for 

 the next two years is very small; in fact, below the nnmber necessary for the insurance 

 of the full supiily needed. Yearling seals are arriving in full numbers, compared with 

 former years. 



July 10. — A drive from Lukanin yielded I.IOS. This drive shows that about half 

 the seals now on the rookeries are yearlings or small 2yearolds. (It was noted in 

 connection with the drive of July 8, in an erasure, that the iiuniber of seals killed was 

 50 per cent of the drive.) An examination of the rookery showed it to be well filled 

 with females. A less number of beach masters were with them than formerly: while 

 the reserves of old males on the uplands and the half bulls along the shore appear 



' The observatious of the season of 1897 show this to be uatural ; the idle and reserve bulls, as 

 a class, do not arrive until later. 



^ Compare record under date of June 10. 



