120 PUK-SEAL HERD OF ALASKA. 



this rookery, it showed 1,135 living pups. It has dwindled from 

 year to year, until only the pitiful number above given remains. 



Friday, August 4, 1911. — Took force of natives and with help of 

 Dr. Mills counted the pups on north rookery. The count was very 

 unsatisfactory, several bulls liolding the young cows, causing the 

 massing of the pups, and many of them to go into the water at the 

 end of the rookery. The aggregate obtained was 4,146 pups, wliich 

 approximately is a correct one. The dead pups were 155. 



Wednesday, June 12, 1912. — The supply steamer Homer came in 

 at 6.30 a. m. and brought the following named passengers: * * * 

 Mr. George A. Clark and son from Stanford University, who are to 

 count the seals, JVIr. J. C. Redpath, formerly company agent, for his 

 health. 



Monday, July 29, 1912. — Mr. Clark and his son went to Zapadnie 

 to count pups, starting at 8.30 o'clock. Mr. Clark returned from 

 Zapadnie in violent rainstorm, completely wetted through. He 

 counted pups at the Zapadnie rookery. 



Tuesday, July 30, 1912. — Mr. Clark and his son went in afternoon 

 to east rookery and made count of the pups. Mr. Clark reported 

 as follows: East Cliffs 2,307, including dead. Found on East Reef, 

 pups, 536; on Middle East, one harem, 26 pups. The total pups on 

 Zapadnie and East is 4,115, 



Wednesdai/, July 31, 1912. — Mr. Clark and his son Paul went in 

 morning with two native boys to assist and counted north rookery. 

 North rookery shows 4,227 pups. In the afternoon Mr. Clark and 

 his son Paul went to Starre Arteel and counted the dead and living 

 pups, with the result that there were found on this rookery 3,607 

 living pups, a surprise to us all. This rookery was supposed to 

 have a much smaller number. 



EXHIBIT H. 



An exhibition of the removal and subornation of the United State s 

 agents, on the Seal Islands of Alaska, who were d oing th eir sworn 

 duty, py the lessees thereof : 1891-1909. Taken f rom th e officia l 

 records on the Seal Islands, and briefed from the sw^orn testimony 

 to House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Com- 

 merce. 1911-1912 . 



Proof of the removal and subornation of the United States agents 

 on the Seal Islands by the lessees and their confederates. An 

 exhibition of the summary treatment given to Treasury agents 

 who did not serve the Seal Island lessees and do their bidding 

 (said seal lessees being the North America Commercial Co., of San 

 Francisco and New York). 

 In 1890, July 20, the chief special agent in charge of the Seal 



Islands, Charles J. Goff , stopped the work of the lessees on July 20, 



because they were kiUing female seals and injuriously driving the 



young male seals in vain, to get their quota of 60,000. For doing 



this, his sworn duty, in — 



1891, April 5, Chief Special Agent Goff was removed, as follows, 



and a "docile" man put in his place: 



