448 SUBJECT INDEX OF APPENDIX. 



Alaskan seal herd, Bryant's report on — Continued. Page. 



Number of seals 279 



breeding cows on St. Paul Island , 279 



bulls on St. Paul Island 279 



cows on St. George Island 279 



bulls on St. George Island 279 



Nursing of pups 277 



Passages on rookery 276 



Pups learning to swim 278 



Purpose in resorting to Pribilof Islands 275 



Reproductive organs of male, developed when 276 



Eeturn of bull to same spot every year 276 



Eookeries, location of 276 



Size of mature female 275 



mature male 275 



Summer resort of 275 



Weight of mature female 275 



mature male 275 



pup at birth 277 



yearling 275 



Why seals resort to the islands 279 



Alaskan seal herd : 



Capt. Hooper on migration of 229-233 



Indian hunters damage but little 392 



Alexander, A. B. Statement of 242 



Alfred Adams: 



Interest of A. Frank in the 352 



Ownership of the 352 



Allen, J. A. Concerning number of seals seen off coast of Washington in 1869. 413 



Ammunition: 



Amount used in pelagic sealing 396 



Cost of 262 



Anna Beck: 



Seizure of the 422 



Value of the 344 



Amak Islands not breeding ground of seals 236 



Annual killings, Pribilof Islands, 1871-'89 425-427 



Appraisement of sealing vessels 329-338 



Aquatic birth, Swan on 391, 392 



Arbitration. (See Treaty of arbitration, etc.) 



Ariel, Russian seizure of, in 1892 201-203 



Arrival at Pribilof Islands : 



Of bachelors 378 



Of bulls 276 



Of cows 276 



Of yearlings 278 



Arrival of — 



Cows on Commander Islands 373 



Seals on Commander Islands 363, 373 



Asiatic pelagic catch, 96 per cent females 365 



Bachelors intermingling with females 278 



Baden-Powell, Sir George, speech of 418 



Barnard, Moses S., deposition of. 353 



Barren cows. (See Cows.) 



Battles on rookeries 276 



BechteL A. J., citizenship of ." 351 



