I]srDE X 



A. 



Page. 



Abandoned fur-Heal rookeries, sites of 85, 49, 155, 167 



Abject condition of seal-island natives under Russian rule 112 



Absence of 2-year olds in bolluscbickie of 1890 102 



sealing data concerning tbc Autartio rookeries 18 



Abundant Kup]dy of killable seals in 1872-1874 90 



Act approved A])ril 5, 1890, ordering this report 5 



Advantages ofi'ered to fur seal by the Pribilov and Commander islands 17, 18 



Affairs on the seal islands of Alaska, review of official reports 200, 201, 202. 204 



Age of adult seals; how long will they live, Venianiinov 131 



Agents of Treasury Department from 1869 to 1890, inclusive 199 



Age, classing the holluschickie or bachelor seals' fur, l»y 99 



of females when ijubile 26 



primipares 26, 28 



male fur seals when prepotent sires 26, 28 



pups wlieii Hrst learn to swim 130, 193 



mothers abandon or wean them 59 



Aiuo fur-seal hunters 18 



Air dried seal pelts 94 



Alaska Commercial Company : 



Amount paid to Government, 1870-1889 219 



Business methods of 113 



Employees of 114 



Prices ]»aid by it to native sealers ; reason why 125 



Terms of sealing lease, 1870-1889 141 



Aleutes of the seal islands, manners and customs of Ill 



physical features and characteristics of lOlt, 110 



first knowledge of seal islands 109 



Algoid vegetation, shores of seal islands — character of 55 



Amendment of seal-island law of 1870, made by author in 1873 53 



Amount and kinds of food consumed by fur seals 61 



of rookery space occupied by single seals 23, 24, 26, 28 



revenue derived from fur-seal industry on Pribilov Islands 219 



Amusements of the natives, music, dancing, etc 121, 122, 123 



Antarctic fur-seal waters, great range of seal in them 18 



Annual rental, tax, and bonus in lease of Alaska Conuuercial Company 141 , 219 



North American Commercial Com- 

 pany 142, 220 



Appearance, tirst annual, of breeding fur seals 68 



hollttschickie, or killable seals 78 



Aquatic birds of the Pribilov Islands, economic value of 120 



evolutions of the fur seals 76 



Area and description of the Pribilov breeding grounds 57 



hauling grounds 73-84 



"Arries" ( Lornvia arra), the great egg bird of the islands 120 



Artamanov, Kerick, Chief, gives author Shaishnikov list 135 



Arrival of all classes of seals, regularity of 161 



fur seal holluschieki on the hauling grounds 78 



the l)reeding seals on the rookeries 65, 68 



Attachment of the natives for the islands 121 



Attempts in old Russian rule to check seal slaughter 13, 14 



Attitudes of f u r seals on land 75 



Appendix 1 14-228 



Auckland Group, fur seals on 17 



Average weights of the raw seal skins 97, 99 



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