108 FUR-SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 



diive was made from tbis reservoir at Zapadnie, that ou tlie Ttli of June, 

 iu which 1,4:1)0 skins were taken. And again in 1881 it was not driven 

 from at all: but ten drives that year were ruade from the Polavina 

 reserve, beginning on the 10th of June, in which 471 skins were taken.' 



But, in 1882 the draft began in earnest; and it has never ceased up to 

 the end of the present season of 1890. 



The work of rapid depletion of the seal life on the hauling grounds of 

 the Pribilov Islands takes its origin at the beginning of this season 

 of 188U. The following citations from the Treasury agent's journal on 

 St. Paul Island show the suddenness, the regularity, and the frequency 

 of these heavy drafts of 1882 iipon that surplus male life which was 

 w'holly undisturbed by man in 1872-1871. 



. I line 2, 7, aud 12, 1882, drives made from Southwest Bay, etc. June 13, 1882, drive 

 made from Polaviua, etc. June 17 ami 20, 1882, drives made from Southwest Bay, 

 etc. June 23, 1882, drive made from Polaviua, etc. June 26 aud 27, 1882, drives 

 made from Southwest Bay, etc. June 30, 1882, drive made from Polaviua, etc. July 

 3, 1882, drive made from Southwest Bay, etc. July 8, 1882, drive made from Polavina, 

 etc. July 13 and 20, 1882, drives made from Southwest Bay, etc. 



Season closed on the 20th; the full (juota then taken of 85,000 for St. Paul. 



And another feature of this draft is that the skins taken from these 

 reserves were all large skins — nothiiuj under 3 and i year olds, or 7i to 

 12 pound skins, until the end was reached in 1889, by the 31st of July. 



' See detailed statement. Appendix, p. 217, 218. 



