444 INDEX OF COUNTER CASE. 



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Sea sealing. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



Seacatchie. (See Bulls.) 



Seal herds. (See Alaskan seal herd, Russian seal herd, Fur-seals.) 



Sealing. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



Sealing chart. (See Charts.) 



Sealing fleet. (See Victoria fleet.) 



Sealing, logs of — 



1891 49 



" Principal data for charts in Report 50 



1892 51 



Sealing vessels about Commander Islands in 1892 29 



Seals. ((See Fur-seals.) 



Seals lost. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



Seals lost by sinking 97 



Sealskins — 



Bundling of. ((See Bundles of sealskins.) 



Counting of. (See Counting of skins.) 



Packing of 116 



Secretary Blaine to Sir J. Pauncefote 45 



Seizures: 



Certain, of sealing vessels admitted 129 



Cooper not inj ured by 131 



Place of 129 



Reason, were made 130 



(See Vessels seized.) 



Shedding of hair. (See "Stagey " seals.) 



Shotgun, general use of, in pelagic sealing 123 



Sinking, seals lost by 97 



Spring catch, average catch per boat in 108 



"Stagey" period 106 



" Stagey " seals : 



Alleged, not found in water 106 



Are taken at sea 107 



Stampedes : 



No evidence of any 90 



Not a cause of death of pups 90 



Standard of weights : 



Average, since 1876 77 



Fell below average in 1899 for first time 67 



Reduced in 1889 77 



Stanley-Brown, J., on when cows enter water 60 



Steam-vessels, licenses proposed for 124 



Suckling. (See Nursing.) 



Summer habitat. (See Winter habitat.) 



Surveillance. (See Bering Sea, control exercised over.) 



Surplus of virile male seals 74 



Table— 



Of average catch per boat and per man presented by report 107 



" in spring catch 108 



Of catch per boat and per man omits years 1885 and 1886 107 



Table entitled "White Hunters"— 



Only gives seals lost by sinking 97 



Sources of 97 



Tliornton, American ownership of 130 



