458 SUBJECT INDEX" OF APPENDIX. 



Nursing cows — Continued. Page. 



of pup 277 



Observations of Alaskan fur-seals at sea 219-227, 237-241, 401-405 



Official reports. (See Reports, official.) 



Oil yielded by a seal » 279 



Orders to Capt. W. C. Coulson 234 



C.L. Hooper 207 



Outfit of sealing vessels, cost of 246,261,343,344 



Outfitting of vessels, date of 346,347,348 



Ownership of vessels seized by United States 301-325, 351, 352 



registered 256 



Pacific (North) Ocean, list of reported dangers in, extract from 288 



Packing. (See Bundles.) 



of skins in casks 358 



Palmer, William, extract from paper prepared by 289 



Passages on rookery 276 



Passenger rates on Pacific coast 349 



Passes, observations near, impracticable in winter 232 



Pearl, case of the 175-180 



Pelagic catch (see also Catch) : 



Composition of, statement of C. W. Martin & Sons as to 417 



Nursing cows in 375 



Ninety-six per cent females 366 



in Asiatic 365 



Of 1892, examination of, on vessels seized 374 



Over 90 per cent female seals 374 



Shipment of, to London 375 



Pelagic coition impossible 364,373 



Pelagic sealers : 



Division of catches, by British Columbia 262 



Firearms used by 261 



Indian 392 



"Lay" of 248 



Wages of 248 



Pelagic sealing: 



Absolute prohibition of, necessary 366, 375 



Ammunition used in 396 



Cause of decrease in Commander Islands 375 



Cause of great mortality of pups in 1891 389 



Compels reduction of catch on Russian islands 364 



Cost of ammunition used in 262 



Decrease of females by 365 



Effects of 366 



Females taken in, Henry on 249 



Injurious effect of, Capt. Coulson on 236 



Capt. Hooper on 218 



Investigations of Corivin 395 



Never engaged in by Alaska Commercial Co 381, 382 



Nursing cows easily taken in 217 



Seals killed in 395 



Sinking of seals in 217 



Swan advises check of 392 



on restrictions of, necessary 392 



Threatens extinction of herd 366 



Waste of life by 366,396 



Pendleton, Benjamin, extract from his letter to Edmund Fanning 329 



