INDEX OF COUNTER CASE. 441 



Pelagic sealing — Continued. Page. 



Prohibition of, in Bering Sea by United States 129 



Seals lost by wounding in 98 



" " not considered in Report 97 



" Stagey " seals taken in 107 



Steam vessels used in 124 



Tabulated statement of white hunters as to number lost 96 



Untru8tworthiness of witnesses as to ■ 82 



Use of rifle in, obsolete 123 



Waste of life by 94 



" " insignificant in, evidence advanced by Report 9.3 



White hunters appear to lose 40 per cent of seals 96 



" White hunters," table 97 



Pregnancy, period of 63 



Pregnant cows. (See Cows.) 



Pribilof Islands : 



Improvement in methods on. (See Improvement in methods.) 



Inhabited by man for a century, and seals have remained Ill 



Lessees of. (See Lessees of Pribilof Islands.) 



Regulations as to quota on, proposed by 125 



Profits, prospective. (See Damages.) 



Prohibition of sealing in Bering Sea by United States 129 



Promiscuous nursing of pups. (See Nursing of pups.) 



Property in seals 121 



Suggested by Mr. Bayard 9 ; 10 



(See Right of protection and of property in seals.) 



Property interest of Indians in seal-herd alleged 101 



Property right. (See Right of protection and property in seals.) 



Prospective profits. (See Damages.) 



Protection and property rights in seals. (-See Right of protection and of prop- 

 erty.) 



Protection of seals : 



Always the main question 8 



By Russia in 1892 29 



Independent of jurisdiction over Bering Sea 19 



Justifiable independently of jurisdictional rights 10 



Main object of arbitration 7 



Protection, right of. (See Right of protection and property in seals.) 



Protective zone. (See Regulations.) 



Provisions of treaty. (See Treaty of Arbitration.) 



Pups: 



Affection of cows for 53 



Dead. (See Dead pups.) 



Nursing of. (See Nursing of pups.) 



Questions submitted under Article VIII of Treaty of Arbitration 134 



Quota : 



Bryant's reasons for advising reduction of, in 1875 69 



Decrease of, by 10,000 equals exteusion of close season by one week 12V 



Limitation of, proposed in Report 125 



Portion of, from Northeast Point 77 



Proposed in Report to be one-fourth of pelagic catch 128 



Reduction of, in 1889 67 



Size of, from 1860 to 1865 73 



" irrelevant unless decrease shown 71 



" under Russian management unfairly stated 71 



10,000 decrease of, equals 10 miles increase of zone 127 



