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ST. PAUL ISLAND JOURNAL. 



July 11, 1909. — * * * At 4 p. m. the RusJi came to anchorage 

 on the west side, and without dropping their anchor iinmediatcly 

 dropped a boat over the side, into which Mr. George A. Clark, of 

 Stanford University, was placed and taken ashore. * * * Mr. 

 Clark arrived under instructions from the department to investigate 

 conditions surrounding the seal life at the present time. He was 

 secretary to Dr. Jordan when the commission under that gentleman 

 made its investigation of these islands m 1896 and 1897. 



August 2, 1909.—^ * * In the afternoon Messrs. Judge and; 

 Clark and myself, mth three native men, counted pups on Kctavie, 

 findmg on Ketavie 1,669 live pups and 60 dead, a total of 1,729, 

 while on x4.mphitheater there were found 246 live and 4 dead })ups, 

 a total of 1,979 for both places. * * * On the space involved, 

 namely Ketavie and Amphitheater, Mr. G. A. Clark counted on 

 July 13th last 53 harems, as noted in this record of the date men- 

 tioned. On the 15th I counted the harems there, finding 58. Upon 

 the basis of Mr. Clark's count the average harem on the space counted 

 would be 37.3, while on the basis of my count the average harem 

 would be 34.1. I have adopted my count as the official figures. 

 In view of the fact that Mr. Clark was more or less hurried in counting, 

 due to the fact that he desired to catch the teams for Northeast 

 Point which were waitmg for him while he was counting. My count, 

 however, was made two days later than the one made last year, and 

 ])robably shows several harems more than if made on the 13th as 

 heretofore. 



ST. GEORGE JOURNAL. 



Friday, July 16, 1909. — Mr. George A. Clark landed from the 

 Manning at about 10 a. m. He comes accredited to examine the 

 rookeries. He is the secretary of President Jordan of Stanford 

 University, California. In the afternoon went with Mr. Clark to 

 east rookery. It was impossible to prevent aU of the bachelor 

 killables and many of the cows from being driven into the water. 

 Mr. Clark did not count the cows. It is not possible to do so in the 

 time given to individual harems. 



Saturday, July 17, 1909.— Mr. Clark and ^Ir. Chichester went to 

 Zapadnie \o examine rookery. Mr. Chichester and Mr. George A. 

 Clark counted bulls at Zapadnie, at Starre Arteel, and north rook- 

 eries. Mr. Clark and Mr. Chichester agreed in their counts. 



Sunday, July 18, 1909.— The Manning sailed for St. Paul at 

 7.30 a. m". 



Tuesday, August 3, 1909.— In the afternoon it cleared off, and I 

 went to north 'rookerv with Mr. Chichester and 5 native men and 

 counted the pups with the following results: Living pups, 3,679; 

 dead pups, 105; dead cows, 2. While the count on this rookery is 

 always difficult and unsatisfactory, I think it was about as good as 

 usual. 



Friday, August 6, 1909.— Went in afternoon to little east rookery 

 and counted pups. The result shows 138 hving and 1 dead pup. 

 One dead cow partly eaten bv the foxes. In 1908, when I examined 



