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as to tale in '■'•sliorV 2-year-olds and a few " long'''' yearlings. Yet with 

 all tins eliort— and tlie attempt this year to get 00,000 skins was 

 most vigorously made, — only 21,000 skins in round numbers were thus 

 secured,' with all possible exertion!. 



TABLE SHOWING THE REMARKABLE SCARCITY OF KILLABLE FUR SEALS. 



Detailed exhibit of percentcKjes of rejection on the killing {/rounds under the Village: at 

 Zapadnie, and at Stony Point, St. Paul Island. 



Whole 

 number 

 of seals 



killed. 



Percent- 

 age of 

 rejection. 



470 

 518 

 426 



263 

 97 

 392 

 203 

 203 



120 



245 

 240 

 180 

 432 



350 

 255 

 162 

 377 

 633 



101 

 309 



172 

 197 

 241 



Per cent. 

 60 



70 



72 



79 



85i 



84i 



88J 



81 



904 



92 



87 



83i 



89" 



87 



85J 



79 



Skin 

 standard 



of ac- 

 ceptance 

 (nothing 

 under). 



Pounds. 

 7 



Where driven from. 



Reef Crest 



Tolstoi, Middle Hill.. 



do 



Keef and Zoltoi blutfs 



Polavinaand Stony Point 



Zapaduio 



Tolstoi and Middle Hill. 



lleef Crest 



Middb- Hill, Tolstoi, and 

 English Hay. 



Northeast Point 



Keef Crest 



Polavina 



Zapadnie 



Tolstoi, Miildle Hill, 

 English Kay, Lukau- 

 non, and Ketavie. 



do 



Polavina 



Zapadnie 



Reef Crest 



Tolstoi, Middle Hill, 

 English Bay, Lukan- 

 non, and Ketavie. 



Reef Crest , 



Tolstoi, Middle Hill, 

 English liay, Lukan- 

 non, and Ketavie. 



Polavina 



Lukan non and Ketavie 



Zapadnie 



Remarks. 



Four year and 3 year olds 

 only taken ; 12 and 7 

 pound skins. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Standard lowered so as 

 to take the 'long" 

 2-year-old8; expound 

 skins. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Standard again lowered 

 80 as take the average 

 2 year-olds ; 5J-pouud 

 skins. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



The detailed figures u]ion which the foregoing tabulation is based, 

 appear in Section VIII, of this report. 



In the drive of July 17 from Polavina, above cited, in order to swell 

 the shrinking catch, all the 4-year-old ''wigs" in the drive were knocked 

 down. They had been regularly rejectetl thus far, as they came up 

 daily in the drives. Out of the total of 172 killed in this Polavina 

 drive, 82 were 4-year-old "wigs." Had the standard not been lowered 

 so as to take them the percentage of rejection would have been 95. 

 In the drive of July 18 from Zapadnie, also cited above, all the 4-year- 

 old "wigs" were again taken to swell the diminishing catch; <J4 out of 

 the total here of 241, were "wigs," Had they not been taken, 88 per 

 cent of rejection would have been the record of that killing. 



On the two last days of killing i^ermitted by the Secretary, viz, July 



'In the report of the Treasury agent in charge, Mr. Charles .1. Goff, for the current 

 year, will be found a detailed daily statement of this work last summer, tog<'ther 

 with a full and exhaustive tabuhition of the work as it has been done during the 

 last twenty years upon these islands. I take much pleasure in reprinting this woiL 

 of Mr. Goff; it will be fouud in the Appendix, postea, pp. 219-224. 



