116 1ANAGEMENT. 



Counting skins do the work, as each is paid for his labor by the 



on Pribilof Isl- x J 



ands. bundle; by the government agent when they are 



taken from the salt-houses for shipment, and the 

 fourth time by the first officer of the company's 

 steamer, as they are delivered on board." 



The bundles were then transported by the 

 steamer to the port of San Francisco and never 

 opened on board the vessel, excepting to re- 

 bundle those which had become loose, and then 

 only two skins were placed in a bundle. 1 On 

 Recount at San reaching San Francisco the bundles were counted 



Fraucisco. 



by a United States custom-house official and 

 also by an employe' of the Alaska Commercial 



a few bundles Company. 2 A few bundles were then opened 

 by an agent of the company, to examine into 

 their condition, the number thus opened being 



Packing andfrom twelve to twenty in the whole cargo. 3 All 

 the Pribilof sealskins, bundled as when they 

 were received, were immediately packed in 

 casks (such packing since 1878 being done at 

 the wharf where the skins were unloaded), 4 

 taken to the railway station, and shipped to C M. 

 Lampson & Company, of London. 5 



1 M. C. Erskine, post p. 360. 

 s Louis Sloss, jr., post p. 384. 



3 Gustave Niebaum, post p. 382; Louis Sloss, jr., post p. 384. 

 4 Gustave Niebaum, post p. 382; Martin Myer, post p. 380; J. B. 

 Crown, post p. 358. 

 6 Gustave Niebaum, post p. 382. 



