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FUR-SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 



bing of a drive uiade from English Bay, Middle Hill, Tolstoi, Liikaimon, 

 and Ketavie : 



Whole iiumber of animals driven, 4,001; number taken, 350, or ^5 

 ]per eent turned out. Last drive from this place, July 4, when 4,323 

 animals were driven and 432 taken, or 'JO^ per cent turned out. To-day 

 every 2-year-old down to middle or medium, or every 5J-pound skin, 

 was taken. Had the standard been Jcept at original marie the rejection 

 would have been as high as 95 to 96 per eent! 



July 8, 1890. — Yesterday afternoon I went back to Tolstoi over the 

 seal road on which the drive above tallied was made in the night and 

 morning of the 7th instant. The number of road "faints" or skins 

 was not large, which shows that the natives had taken great care in 

 driving. This they have uniformly done thus far : but, when they pick 

 up the drives at Zapadnie, at Lukannon, on the Reef, and at Polaviuii, 

 they are obliged, in order to get all of the holluschickie, to swecj) the 

 very skirts of the rookeries. That is wrong; it should not be permit- 

 ted. When matters become so desperate as to obligate such a method 

 it is time to call a halt. 



I went up to Stony Point this morning early, and made the following- 

 field notes of the podding and clubbing of a drive from Polavina and 

 all the beach below to Stony Point: 



