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FUR-SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 



ber of seal skins taken, together with a note of that place or places on 

 the island where these skins were taken or driven from for that par- 

 ticular day's killing. 



Extracting this record of the driving, as I have below for Polavina, 

 involved a lengthy and patient reading of these rambling entries. To 

 make sure that I overlooked nothing, I requested Mr. S. K. Nettleton, 

 assistant Treasury agent, to make a similar examination and give me 

 the dates. We agreed in our findings exactly as to Polavina; but the 

 Zapadnie drives were so badly mixed up in this record after 1878, that 

 it was not possible to make a truly accurate list, as in the case of 

 Polavina. 



But as Polavina was one of the several fine, large, hauling grounds, 

 never visited or driven from in 1873-1874, together with Zapadnie and 

 Sonthu-est Foint, this record of the driving there and its frequency 

 in progression, etc, is valnable, independent of the testimony of the 

 natives above referred to. With reference to this particnlar driving 

 from Polavina, the natives, Artamanov and Booterin,in particular, claim 

 to know that these drives, up to 1879, n-ere )iot talen from the Polavina 

 hauJimj grounds had- of that great roolery, but irere gathered up any- 

 where between the old Polavina harrahlde and Tonhie Mees, or Stony 

 Point, and that «o driving from the great Polavina hauling plateau and 

 Little Polavina up to JJalnoi ivas done until the new salt house was 

 built at Stony Point in 1879. These old native chiefs also averred that 

 these early drives from those undisturbed reservoirs of 187U-1874 were 

 made up exclusively of " big seals," i. e., smooth 4-year okls, or 11-pound 

 skins. 



The Treasury atjenfs official record of drives made from rolavina or Halfway Point. 

 [Extracted from tlie journal of the Treasury agent'.s ollice, St. Paul Village.] 



1887 : 



1875: 



June 16. a 

 1876: 



June 14. a 

 1877: 



June 13. a 

 22. a 

 26. a 

 1878: 



June 24. a 

 July 1. a 

 1879 : 



June 10. 



14. 



16. 



July 8. 



1880: 



June 21. 



28. 



July 5. 



17. 



1881: 



June 10. 



1884: 



June 23. 



July 7. 



12. 



14. 



19. 



1885 : 



1886 



June 15. 



23. 



26. 

 July 10. 



16. 



24. 



June 9. 



17. 



23. 



25. 



30. 

 July 6. 



12. 



16. 



21. 



26. 



June 16. 



23. 



30. 

 July 6. 



14. 



21. 

 1888: 



June 15. 



28. 



July 7. 



7. 



14. 



19. 



24. 

 1889: 



June 17. 



25. 

 July 2. 



10. 



17. 



24. 



30. 



Every one of these drives above noted made since 1879, embrace seals 

 taken up from the entire region between Little Polavina down to Stony 

 Point. The drive was finally rounded up and killed a short distance 

 only from the Point, near the new salt house. 



a Not taken from Polayina proper ; someways south, including Stony Point. 



