RECORD OF G. R. TINGLE. 279 



188-4. 



Jauuary 11. — A few hundred seals are on Sea Lion Eock. 



January 12. — A few large seals are hauled out on the beach at the end of the 

 island. 



January 20. — The seals have left Northeast Point and Sea Lion Hock. 



March 6. — Orders were giveu to shoot or house all hogs whicli had become a 

 nuisance and had been visiting Zoltoi, Keef, and Nah Speel, driving the seals into the 

 water. 



April 2G. — The tirst fur seal of the seasou was seen today. 



April 30. — The large seals have hauled out at Southwest Bay; two at Tolstoi, 

 and many iu the water about Englisli Bay. 



May 2. — The large male seals are beginning to haul out on the rookeries. Several 

 are already on the extreme south end of the Eeef rookery, and quite a large number 

 iu the water. 



May 3. — Two bulls are on Lukanin. 



May 11. — Bulls are reported by the natives on all the rookeries. The first on 

 Warehouse Point came last night. A few bachelor seals are hauled out at Southwest 

 Bay and a few are iu the water near the point of the Beef 



May 15. — "Killers" are quite numerous. 



May 21. — Drives for food were made from Halfway Poiut and Reef; lJ»7 killed. 

 "Killer.?"' drove a shark ( ?) on shore at Halfway Point. 



Juue 3. — A drive was made from tlie Reef and 318 killed. 



July 21.— A drive from Middle Hall, Kitovi, Zoltoi. yielded 1,911. This killing 

 closed the season. The total number killed was 88,995, of which 85,000 were accepted 

 by the company.' 



July 29. — Eight hundred seal skins are yet to be taken on St. George to complete 

 the quota of 15,000 for that island. 



August 26. — The number of large seals iu the food drive to-day was unusually 

 small. In a drove of 2,000 only 57 were killed, the skins of which were acceiited. 

 The state of affairs is very different from previous years and difficult to account for.^ 



November 5. — Since the 3d, 2,731 pups have been killed for winter food. 



December 31. — The weather is unusually mild. The seals have nearly all gone. 

 Those remaining are at Southwest Bay, Beef, and Sea Lion Eock. 



1885. 

 April 27. — The first seal seen this season is hauled out at Southwest Bay. 



RECORD KEPT BY G. R TINGLE. 



June 3. — A drive (place not stated) was made and 49 seals killed. 

 June 19. — A drive from Lukanin and Halfway Point yielded 1,307 skins. The 

 natives found an albino pup; it was dead, having been bitten in the head. 



' The securing of this finota shows that a more normal condition of the hauling grounds existed 

 iu this season. One can not help noting in passing the rejection here implied of nearly 4,000 skins in 

 skins in a quota of 85,000; or at $3 a skin, a loss of .$12,000. 



= Here we begin to see the actual scarcity of bachelor seals resulting from the dimiuished birth 

 rate of 1880 and 1881, when the pelagic catch exceeded 1,5,000 as against a normal catch of 5,000 in the 

 ten years previous. 



