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Chickens, difficult to keep them well on seal islands ,. . 119 



Chiefs, among the natives ; their selection by 127 



Chinese market for fur-seal skins .* 12 



Children of the natives, love of parents for 120 



"Choochkies," Simo-rhytichus, the reed bird of the North 120 



Choris, lemarks on St. George and sea lions there, July, 1820 48 



Classing hollusAickie by age 98 



Clubs and knives on killing grounds 93 



Cod fishing around the seal islands, poor 118 



Colonization of seal islands by Pribilov 109. 110 



Colors of the bachelor seals' coats 98 



female seals' coats 98 



Condition of the seal lierd as contrasted with the past 11, 12 



Confervoid growth on seal gror.nds 144 



Commander Islands, fur seals on 18 



Comparative size of males and females 99 



Cook, Captain, fur seals found by, on Falkland Islands 17 



"Cookhnets," now supplanted by our cast-iron stoves 119 



Coitoids, small lishes eagerly sought for by natives 119 



Cows and pnps jjodded out in full swing, July 26 159 



destroyed by pelagic sealers, waste and cruelty of 137, 148 



few clusters hauled out in Lnkauuon, June 22 149 



first arrival in Lukannon, June 12, 1890 149 



hauling oddly scattered, on Tolstoi, June 21 151 



on Zapadnie, June 13 154 



Tolstoi, June 30 152 



KetaVie and Lukannon, June 22 150 



in small squads 146, 147 



on Garbotcli, June 23 ; on Lagoon, June 23 151 



injury of driving them 192 



restless because not served 148 



massing on Tolstoi sand beach, July 7 153 



on North rookery, only half as many as in 1873, July 19 159 



Crab, fine table, Telemessus cheiraqonua 119 



Cruelty and waste of pelagic sealing 137 



Culling the driven herds, bad effects of 77 



must be prohibited 63, 228 



of driven herd severely done, July 25 179 



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Dailv killing of 1889 compared with that of 1890 224 



statement of seals killed on St. Paul, 1890 222 



St. George, 1890 223 



Danger to seals on islands, not visible in 1872-1874 7 



now threatening the fur-seal industry 128 



of extermination — reasons for author's belief in 71, 72 



Darwinism among the natives 93 



Decrease of the life on the rookeries, cause of 68 



seal life since 1872-1874 — reasons for it 8 



Tinder Russian rule, reasons for 130 



Deflection of Alaskan seals over to Asia— not credible 211 



Desolation of hauling grounds at Zapadnie, St. Paul, July 9 1-55 



Island, fur seals on 18 



Destruction of seal pups by killer whales 201-202 



Discovery of seal islands by Pribilov 109 



Disease among fur seals, none ever found 63 



Diseases among the natives 122, 123 



Distribution of gifts from natives' earnings, 1870-1889 220 



Docility of the natives 114 



fur seals when driven 89 



Do the holluschickie haul out where born? test of 78 



Dregs of seal life drawn upon, July 15, July 18 188, 190 



Driving cows — inj ury to their udders, etc 86 



effect of, on the Zapadnie rookery, July 3 154-155 



and then redri ving the same seals, June 23 170 



killing by Russians, 1817-1854 14 



killablo seals' in 1872-1874 on St. Paul ■ 7 



of holluschickie, new rules when resumed GQ 



