278 THE KUR SEALS OF THE PRHULOF ISLANDS. 



RECORD KEPT BY H A. GLIDDEN. 



September 25. — The rookeries ;it Tolstoi, Iln.ulisli JJay, ami Northwest Bay are all 

 oceii])ied by cows and i)Ui)S hauled out uixni land, in many phwes (inite a distance 

 from the sliore. 



October 14. — The seal.s have left the breeding rookery (Lagoon) o])i)osite the 

 Warehouse. Most of the seals have disappeaied IVoni Tolstoi ; none are left at English 

 Bay. 



December 31. — No seals are visible except on 8ea Lion Koek. 



1888. 



April '■)(). — The ice is .still firm about the island. 



May C. — The chiefs rejjort the appearance of seals on the Iteef and Lukanin. 



May 8. — Seals reported on Tolstoi. Some ice still remains. 



May 10. — Several bidl seals are on the Ifeef. 



June 4. — The first regular drive of the season gave 592 seals from Southwest Bay 

 and Tolstoi. 



.June 10. — But very few small seals have arrived as yet upon the island, a 

 considerably smaller number than at this time last year. 



,lnly 1(1. — Owing to the small number of large seals, the work at Northeast I'oiut 

 was suspended and the sealers returned to the village. 



July 13. — A drive from Southwest Bay yielded 2,444 seals. Seals are arriving 

 late at St. (ieorge; only 7,500 secured there to date.' 



August 2.— There are 400 skins yet to be taken to fill the quota of 15,000 for St. 

 George. 



October 2C>. — Seals are leaving the island very fost; the rookeries and hauling 

 grounds .show that more than half have left; at Northeast I'oint but few remain. 



November 2. — The quota of pups for food, .$,000 in all, was coni])leted to-day. 



November 18. — But few seals remain on the rookeries; more are on the Beef than 

 anywhere else. 



November 24. — About 2,000 large young seals liave hauled up on Southwest Bay 

 within the last two or three days. 



December 4. — Trapping of foxes has been suspended, because the setting of traps 

 near the rookeries tends to frighten the seals into the water. 



December 5. — Seals have left Tolstoi, English Bay, and Halfway Point. A few 

 are still at Southwest Bay, mostly cows and pups. A few small seals aie on the Eeef, 

 but so near the water that it is impossible to drive tliem for food. 



December 12. — A food killing from the Beef gave 420 seals. Seals are hauling 

 out again at Southwest Bay and Northeast Point. 



December 20. — Natives report many seals hauled out at Northeast Point. Great 

 numbers are seen daily in the water on the east side. A few hundred are on the south 

 end of the Keef and many on Sea Lion Bock. 



' In tliis aud otln-r entries (liiriug this seasou we see evidciicoof a growinjj scarcity of seals on the 

 hauling grounds. This is in part doubtless due to the growing pelagic catch, but must in part also 

 be due to peculiar seasonal conditions. 



